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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Manaus or Petra?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Manaus leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Petra 22: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Petra 85: Petra leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Petra 5: Manaus leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Petra 78: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Petra 30: Petra leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Petra 25: Manaus leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Petra 25: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Petra 18: Manaus leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Petra 45: Manaus leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Petra 10: Manaus leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Petra 28: Petra leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Petra.

Your match

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

Manaus
Best match
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights 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
12 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPetra
Official languagePortugueseArabic
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCN60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m850 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManausPetra
City population2,303,732-
People per km²202-
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.