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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Huatulco 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 Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Manaus for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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. Huatulco 86, Manaus 38: Huatulco leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Manaus 12: Huatulco leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Manaus 35: Huatulco leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Manaus 27: Huatulco leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Manaus 20: Huatulco leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco 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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Manaus
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.

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoManaus
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-4
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation220 m92 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoManaus
City population7,4092,303,732
People per km²-202
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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.