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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Manaus or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, St. Pete Beach 40: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, St. Pete Beach 18: Manaus leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, St. Pete Beach 28: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, St. Pete Beach 57: Manaus leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, St. Pete Beach 30: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, St. Pete Beach 20: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, St. Pete Beach 32: Manaus leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, St. Pete Beach 20: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and St. Pete Beach.

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 live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausSt. Pete Beach
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m2 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausSt. Pete Beach
City population2,303,7328,879
People per km²202173
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.