VacationSelector

Bratislava or Manila?

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

Your match

Bratislava
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BratislavaManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
BratislavaManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km363
Coast distance10,000 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 1 points.1
BratislavaManila
Score5758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5401,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 11 points.11
BratislavaManila
Score6150
Museums within 10 km5377
Museums within 2 km of centre3523
Share of museums within 2 km %6630
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 8 points.8
BratislavaManila
Score5361
Drinking venues within 4 km6971,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7635
Nightclubs within 4 km3436
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 10 points.10
BratislavaManila
Score3929
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km85 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 12 points.12
BratislavaManila
Score4860
Tourist attractions within 2 km1637
Park area within 2 km85 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 11 points.11
BratislavaManila
Score6352
Notable places within 2 km14679
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 14 points.14
BratislavaManila
Score7690
Price level global54.333.7
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Bratislava and Manila are level on 61.
BratislavaManila
Score6161
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months14
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
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 5 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 0 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 40 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
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 2026-08 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

MeasureBratislavaManila
Official languageSlovakEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation152 m9 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaManila
City population480,9021,902,590
People per km²1,30876,104
Museums within 10 km2227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6139
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.