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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Manaus or Puerto Escondido?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Puerto Escondido 48: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Puerto Escondido 8: Manaus leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Puerto Escondido 78: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Puerto Escondido 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Puerto Escondido 22: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Puerto Escondido 12: Manaus leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Puerto Escondido.

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 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

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPuerto Escondido
Official languagePortugueseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCN60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m60 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausPuerto Escondido
City population2,303,73229,903
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.