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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Manaus or Palm Beach?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Palm Beach 47: Manaus leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Palm Beach 45: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Palm Beach 32: Manaus leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Palm Beach 58: Manaus leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Palm Beach 12: Manaus leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Palm Beach 45: Manaus leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Palm Beach.

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.

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ManausPalm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPalm Beach
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m2 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausPalm Beach
City population2,303,7329,245
People per km²202322
Museums within 10 km134
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.