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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
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Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Manaus?

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 Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Manaus for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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. Buenos Aires 7, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Manaus 56: Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Manaus 46: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Manaus 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Manaus 12: Buenos Aires leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Manaus 35: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Manaus 27: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Manaus 36: Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Manaus 54: Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Manaus 20: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Manaus.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and day trips with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresManaus

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresManaus
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-4
Emergency number117 or 911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation25 m92 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresManaus
City population3,121,7072,303,732
People per km²15,355202
Museums within 10 km7613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.