VacationSelector

Atlanta or Manchester?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AtlantaManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance373 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaManchester
Score5968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaManchester
Score3542
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre1611
Share of museums within 2 km %3948
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaManchester
Score4962
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5377
Nightclubs within 4 km4682
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaManchester
Score3136
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km113 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Atlanta and Manchester are level on 32.
AtlantaManchester
Score3232
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km113 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaManchester
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km3961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaManchester
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaManchester
Score6754
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaManchester
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
NaplesNAP
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BridgetownBGI
4 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureAtlantaManchester
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation225 m38 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaManchester
City population498,715547,627
People per km²1,4334,737
Museums within 10 km2728
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5663
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.