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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Keystone or Macau?

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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Macau for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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. Keystone 5, Macau 24: Macau leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Macau 77: Macau leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Macau 62: Macau leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Macau 40: Macau leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Macau 5: Keystone leads by 88 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Macau 52: Keystone leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Macau 48: Keystone leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Macau 60: Macau leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Macau 58: Macau leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Macau 44: Macau leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Macau 36: Macau leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Macau 40: Macau leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Macau.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

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

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneMacau
Official language-Portuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation2,796 m22 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneMacau
City population1,369682,100
People per km²135,916
Museums within 10 km028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.