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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Manaus or Vail?

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
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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

Choose Vail for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Manaus leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Vail 35: Manaus leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Vail 10: Manaus leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Vail 30: Manaus leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Vail 92: Vail leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Vail 45: Vail leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Vail 55: Vail leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Vail 62: Vail leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Vail 35: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Vail 5: Manaus leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Vail 42: Manaus leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Vail 48: Vail leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Vail.

Your match

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

Manaus
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on getting around 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
12 hdaylight a day

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausVail
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation92 m2,445 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausVail
City population2,303,7324,835
People per km²202400
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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.