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Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manaus or Negril?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Negril’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, Negril 93: Negril leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Negril 36: Manaus leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Negril 8: Manaus leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Negril 40: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Negril 60: Manaus leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Negril 35: Negril leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Negril 45: Negril leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Negril 30: Negril leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Negril 15: Manaus leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Negril 44: Manaus leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Negril 33: Manaus leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Negril 52: Negril leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Negril.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Manaus
43match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Negril in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
174 mmrain in the month
9 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

Negril's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Montego Bay / Sangster.

Negril 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. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausNegril
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation92 m10 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausNegril
City population2,303,7324,500
People per km²202-
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.