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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
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The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Manaus or Pattaya?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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, Pattaya 66: Pattaya leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Pattaya 30: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Pattaya 40: Manaus leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Pattaya 52: Pattaya leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Pattaya 55: Pattaya leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Pattaya 36: Pattaya leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Pattaya 42: Pattaya leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Pattaya 84: Pattaya leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Pattaya 30: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Pattaya
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips 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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya 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.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPattaya
Official languagePortugueseThai
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Baht (THB)
SocketsCN60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation92 m35 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManausPattaya
City population2,303,732119,532
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.