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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Manaus for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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. Havana 64, Manaus 38: Havana leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Manaus 46: Havana leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Manaus 42: Havana leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Manaus 12: Havana leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Manaus 35: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Manaus 27: Havana leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Manaus 54: Havana leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Manaus 20: Havana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Manaus.

Your match

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

Havana
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaManaus
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation59 m92 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaManaus
City population2,492,6182,303,732
People per km²3,423202
Museums within 10 km1213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.