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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manaus or Yogyakarta?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Yogyakarta 32: Manaus leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Yogyakarta 72: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and wellness 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureManausYogyakarta
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation92 m113 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManausYogyakarta
City population2,303,732422,732
People per km²20213,007
Museums within 10 km1338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.