VacationSelector

Bath or Manila?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 68 points.68
BathManila
Score876
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance29 km2 km
Water distance29 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 12 points.12
BathManila
Score4658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 3 points.3
BathManila
Score4750
Museums within 10 km2077
Museums within 2 km of centre1423
Share of museums within 2 km %7030
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 25 points.25
BathManila
Score3661
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7535
Nightclubs within 4 km1136
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 15 points.15
BathManila
Score4429
Protected land share 50 km %284
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9278
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 20 points.20
BathManila
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km1437
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 20 points.20
BathManila
Score3252
Notable places within 2 km2579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
BathManila
Score5490
Price level global84.933.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 6 points.6
BathManila
Score5561
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months04
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
13 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
HanoiHAN
11 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€182-214
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
6 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBathManila
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m9 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathManila
City population94,0921,902,590
People per km²3,24576,104
Museums within 10 km1727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.