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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Macau or Nashville?

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 Macau for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Nashville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Macau 24, Nashville 14: Macau leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Nashville 62: Macau leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Nashville 50: Macau leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Nashville 46: Nashville leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Macau and Nashville are level on 52.
Good for families. Macau 48, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Nashville 30: Macau leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Nashville 42: Macau leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Nashville 30: Macau leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Nashville 20: Macau leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Nashville.

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

Macau
46match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauNashville
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese-
CurrencyPataca (MOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation22 m182 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauNashville
City population682,100689,447
People per km²5,916506
Museums within 10 km2812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.