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A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lake Louise 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 Lake Louise for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Manaus for

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

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. Lake Louise 5, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Lake Louise 20, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Lake Louise 7, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Lake Louise 4, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lake Louise 97, Manaus 86: Lake Louise leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Lake Louise 33, Manaus 12: Lake Louise leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Lake Louise 40, Manaus 35: Lake Louise leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Lake Louise 28, Manaus 27: Lake Louise leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Lake Louise 6, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Lake Louise 9, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lake Louise 3, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lake Louise 42, Manaus 20: Lake Louise leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lake Louise and Manaus.

Your match

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

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Manaus
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Lake LouiseManaus

Where the figures come from

Lake Louise 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. Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLake LouiseManaus
Official languageFrench, EnglishPortuguese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation1,600 m92 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLake LouiseManaus
City population-2,303,732
People per km²-202
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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. 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.