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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manaus or Sorrento?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Sorrento 32: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Sorrento 28: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Sorrento 80: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 83 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Sorrento 42: Sorrento leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Sorrento 32: Manaus leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Sorrento 20: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Sorrento.

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 prices with your weighting.

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausSorrento
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation92 m50 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausSorrento
City population2,303,73215,407
People per km²2021,541
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.