VacationSelector

Cardiff or Manila?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

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

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

CardiffManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 30 points.30
CardiffManila
Score4676
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km83
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 2 points.2
CardiffManila
Score6058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 11 points.11
CardiffManila
Score3950
Museums within 10 km6177
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %1030
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 13 points.13
CardiffManila
Score4861
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7435
Nightclubs within 4 km3536
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 21 points.21
CardiffManila
Score5029
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6878
Park area within 2 km88 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 28 points.28
CardiffManila
Score3260
Tourist attractions within 2 km437
Park area within 2 km88 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 7 points.7
CardiffManila
Score4552
Notable places within 2 km5179
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
CardiffManila
Score5490
Price level global84.933.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 7 points.7
CardiffManila
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffManila
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCardiffManila
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
Elevation41 m9 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffManila
City population383,5361,902,590
People per km²2,73476,104
Museums within 10 km927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5539
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.