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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Manaus or Siem Reap?

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
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Manaus leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Siem Reap 45: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Manaus and Siem Reap are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Siem Reap 40: Manaus leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Siem Reap 55: Siem Reap leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Manaus and Siem Reap are level on 35.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Siem Reap 30: Siem Reap leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Siem Reap 38: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Siem Reap 32: Manaus leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Siem Reap.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Siem Reap
Best match
47match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureManausSiem Reap
Official languagePortugueseKhmer
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCN60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation92 m18 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausSiem Reap
City population2,303,732147,866
People per km²202-
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

Where else could you go?

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.