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Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ghent 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 Ghent for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Manaus for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • beaches

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. Ghent 25, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Ghent 62, Manaus 56: Ghent leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Ghent 72, Manaus 46: Ghent leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Ghent 55, Manaus 42: Ghent leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ghent 35, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 51 points.
Day trips. Ghent 88, Manaus 12: Ghent leads by 76 points.
Good for families. Ghent 50, Manaus 35: Ghent leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Ghent 78, Manaus 27: Ghent leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Ghent 50, Manaus 36: Ghent leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Ghent 38, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ghent 60, Manaus 54: Ghent leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ghent 33, Manaus 20: Ghent leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ghent and Manaus.

Your match

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

Ghent
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGhentManaus
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation12 m92 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentManaus
City population272,6572,303,732
People per km²1,728202
Museums within 10 km3013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.