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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral, Santo Domingo
Santo DomingoThe statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santo Domingo by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Manaus or Santo Domingo?

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

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

Choose Santo Domingo for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Santo Domingo’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, Santo Domingo 58: Santo Domingo leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Santo Domingo 58: Santo Domingo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Santo Domingo 64: Santo Domingo leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Santo Domingo 66: Santo Domingo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Santo Domingo 36: Manaus leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Santo Domingo 44: Santo Domingo leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Santo Domingo 40: Santo Domingo leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Santo Domingo 40: Santo Domingo leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Santo Domingo 44: Santo Domingo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Santo Domingo 66: Santo Domingo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Santo Domingo 46: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Santo Domingo 22: Santo Domingo leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Santo Domingo.

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.

Santo Domingo
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and nightlife 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

Santo Domingo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
183 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Santo Domingo 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). Santo Domingo: 1991-2020 normals, Santo Domingo (6.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausSanto Domingo
Official languagePortugueseSpanish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCN60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m14 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsLas Américas International Airport (SDQ)28 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausSanto Domingo
City population2,303,7322,201,941
People per km²2021,691
Museums within 10 km1310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.