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Punta del Este

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Manaus or Punta del Este?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Punta del Este 45: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Punta del Este 22: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Punta del Este 55: Manaus leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Punta del Este 45: Punta del Este leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Punta del Este 35: Punta del Este leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Punta del Este 42: Punta del Este leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Punta del Este 20: Manaus leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Punta del Este 22: Manaus leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Punta del Este 32: Punta del Este leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Manaus
43match

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

Punta del Este
42match

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

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausPunta del Este
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCN60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m11 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausPunta del Este
City population2,303,7329,277
People per km²202455
Museums within 10 km135
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.