VacationSelector

Cannes or Manila?

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

Your match

Cannes
49
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

CannesManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 3 points.3
CannesManila
Score7376
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km683
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 8 points.8
CannesManila
Score5058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1917
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 14 points.14
CannesManila
Score3650
Museums within 10 km3177
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %1630
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 33 points.33
CannesManila
Score2861
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8735
Nightclubs within 4 km1936
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesManila
Score3329
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5378
Park area within 2 km13 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 35 points.35
CannesManila
Score2560
Tourist attractions within 2 km737
Park area within 2 km13 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesManila
Score5652
Notable places within 2 km9579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 28 points.28
CannesManila
Score6290
Price level global73.733.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesManila
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months34
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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
16 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCannesManila
Official languageFrenchEnglish, 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
Elevation0 m9 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesManila
City population74,3501,902,590
People per km²3,79376,104
Museums within 10 km1627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3839
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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). 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. 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.