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Atlanta or Macau?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
Atlanta

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Your match

Atlanta
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Macau
46
match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AtlantaMacau
Beaches & swimming. Macau leads by 14 points.14
Food & drink. Macau leads by 9 points.9
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 7 points.7
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 25 points.25
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta leads by 55 points.55
Day trips. Atlanta and Macau are level on 52.
Good for families. Atlanta leads by 22 points.22
Getting around. Macau leads by 32 points.32
Shopping & style. Macau leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Macau leads by 4 points.4
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta leads by 26 points.26
Wellness & relaxation. Macau leads by 7 points.7
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Macau.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAtlantaMacau
Daytime high32 °C32 °C
Night-time low22 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month121 mm281 mm
SunshineNo figure7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight14 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5

Where the figures come from

Atlanta's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaMacau
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
16 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 45 m
€690-962
2 stops
HKG · 41 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaMacau
Official language-Portuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation225 m22 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaMacau
City population498,715682,100
People per km²1,4335,916
Museums within 10 km2728
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.