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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Havana or Manchester?

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

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Manchester for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Havana leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Manchester 51: Manchester leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Manchester 50: Havana leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Manchester 64: Manchester leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Manchester 42: Havana leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana and Manchester are level on 74.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Manchester 15: Havana leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Manchester.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and shopping 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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaManchester
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112 or 999
Elevation59 m38 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaManchester
City population2,492,618547,627
People per km²3,4234,737
Museums within 10 km1228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.