This work investigates the photoluminescence (PL) properties of the cubic chloroperovskite NH 4 MnCl 3 . Like in most concentrated materials, the Mn 2+ PL which is located at 2.10 eV at T = 10 K strongly depends on the temperature. Optical absorption (OA), emission, and excitation spectroscopy, as well as lifetime measurements, performed on NH 4 MnCl 3 indicate that the PL is mainly intrinsic at T = 10 K and consists of a broad band located at 2.10 eV. Above this temperature, the PL gradually transforms to extrinsic PL due to exciton migration and subsequent trapping. Further temperature increase above 100 K yields transfer to killers of excitation which are responsible for the PL quenching, and hence the absence of PL at ambient conditions. The exciton traps are identified with perturbed Mn 2+ sites with the effective activation energy of 52 meV, whilst the activation energy for energy transfer is 47 meV. The existence of these traps has been directly revealed by time-resolved spectroscopy. The detected intrinsic and extrinsic PL bands are displaced by 6 meV, which coincides with the activation energy difference between pure Mn 2+ and trap Mn 2+ , as derived from temperature dependence studies of the lifetime τ (T ). Interestingly, a PL band at 1.82 eV is observed above 60 K. This band, which was initially associated with deeper excitation traps, actually corresponds to precipitates of MnCl 2 inside NH 4 MnCl 3 . The correlation analysis performed on NH 4 MnCl 3 using OA, PL, and lifetime data provides an estimate of the precipitate concentration of 0.3 mol %. The presence of two separated Mn 2+ PL bands at different temperatures is a rather common phenomenon in concentrated materials such as AMnX 3 (A = NH 4 , Rb; X = Cl, F), and has been interpreted in terms of exciton transfer to deeper traps. The present finding stresses the relevance of an adequate structural characterization in dealing with PL in concentrated materials.