VacationSelector

Calgary or Manila?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
CalgaryManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance649 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryManila
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3617
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 41 points.41
CalgaryManila
Score950
Museums within 10 km877
Museums within 2 km of centre323
Share of museums within 2 km %3830
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Manila leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryManila
Score4461
Drinking venues within 4 km4651,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7435
Nightclubs within 4 km1936
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryManila
Score3629
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km142 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 19 points.19
CalgaryManila
Score4160
Tourist attractions within 2 km337
Park area within 2 km142 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryManila
Score3952
Notable places within 2 km3779
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryManila
Score5490
Price level global8433.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryManila
Score5761
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months84
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryManila
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
2 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
12 h 55 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

MeasureCalgaryManila
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m9 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryManila
City population1,306,7841,902,590
People per km²1,58376,104
Museums within 10 km1327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6739
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). 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. 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.