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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manaus or Valparaiso?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Valparaiso 50: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Valparaiso 60: Manaus leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Valparaiso 33: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Valparaiso 30: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Valparaiso 60: Manaus leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Valparaiso 38: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Valparaiso 18: Manaus leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Valparaiso.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Valparaiso
Best match
46match

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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausValparaiso
Official languagePortugueseSpanish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCN60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation92 m21 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausValparaiso
City population2,303,732296,655
People per km²2026,180
Museums within 10 km1317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.