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The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona 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 Daytona Beach for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Manaus for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • 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. Daytona Beach 80, Manaus 38: Daytona Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Manaus 12: Daytona Beach leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Manaus 35: Daytona Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Manaus 27: Manaus leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Manaus 20: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Manaus.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 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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Daytona BeachManaus

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona 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
Elevation4 m92 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachManaus
City population72,6472,303,732
People per km²440202
Museums within 10 km613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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.