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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Manaus or Saint-Tropez?

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 Saint-Tropez for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Saint-Tropez 48: Manaus leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Saint-Tropez 35: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Saint-Tropez 72: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Saint-Tropez 8: Manaus leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Saint-Tropez 18: Manaus leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

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

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

Wins on day trips and beaches 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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °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

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausSaint-Tropez
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation92 m0 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausSaint-Tropez
City population2,303,7323,582
People per km²202320
Museums within 10 km134
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.