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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Manaus for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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. Key West 60, Manaus 38: Key West leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Manaus 42: Key West leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Manaus 12: Key West leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Manaus 35: Key West leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Manaus 27: Key West leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Manaus 20: Key West leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Manaus.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Key West
44match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestManaus
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 airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestManaus
City population26,4442,303,732
People per km²1,407202
Museums within 10 km713
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.