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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Manaus or Melbourne?

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 Manaus for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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. Manaus 38, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Melbourne 70: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Melbourne 31: Manaus leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausMelbourne
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCN60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193000
Elevation92 m31 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausMelbourne
City population2,303,7325,350,705
People per km²202535
Museums within 10 km1343
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.