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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Salvador?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Salvador for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Salvador 84: Salvador leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Salvador 66: Salvador leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Salvador 74: Salvador leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Salvador 52: Salvador leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Salvador 56: Amman leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Amman and Salvador are level on 42.
Affordability. Amman 58, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Salvador 63: Salvador leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Salvador 32: Amman leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Salvador.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanSalvador
Official languageArabicPortuguese
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation776 m8 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanSalvador
City population4,007,5262,417,678
People per km²2,3853,489
Museums within 10 km849
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.