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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Manaus or Phuket?

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
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Phuket for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Phuket 35: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Phuket 80: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Phuket 45: Phuket leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Phuket 22: Manaus leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Phuket 20: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 62 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Phuket.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on wellness and beaches 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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPhuket
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 m19 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManausPhuket
City population2,303,73277,610
People per km²2026,468
Museums within 10 km132
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.