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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Macau or Positano?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Positano for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’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, Positano 77: Positano leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Positano 40: Macau leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Positano 22: Macau leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Positano 22: Macau leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Positano 80: Positano leads by 75 points.
Day trips. Macau 52, Positano 88: Positano leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Macau 48, Positano 28: Macau leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Positano 35: Macau leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Positano 45: Macau leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Positano 10: Macau leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Positano 15: Macau leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Positano 45: Positano leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Positano.

Your match

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

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Positano
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauPositano
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseItalian
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation22 m142 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauPositano
City population682,1003,729
People per km²5,916429
Museums within 10 km2810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.