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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach 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 Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Manaus for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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. Cocoa Beach 80, Manaus 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Manaus 12: Cocoa Beach leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Manaus 35: Cocoa Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Manaus 27: Manaus leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Manaus 20: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Manaus.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Manaus
Best match
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cocoa Beach in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
147 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Cocoa Beach 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachManaus
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation0 m92 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachManaus
City population11,3542,303,732
People per km²290202
Museums within 10 km313
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.