VacationSelector

Faro or Manila?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

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

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

FaroManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 15 points.15
FaroManila
Score6176
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 14 points.14
FaroManila
Score4458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 28 points.28
FaroManila
Score2250
Museums within 10 km977
Museums within 2 km of centre823
Share of museums within 2 km %8930
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Manila leads by 40 points.40
FaroManila
Score2161
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8635
Nightclubs within 4 km836
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroManila
Score5729
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4278
Park area within 2 km34 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 24 points.24
FaroManila
Score3660
Tourist attractions within 2 km1037
Park area within 2 km34 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 30 points.30
FaroManila
Score2252
Notable places within 2 km1479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 16 points.16
FaroManila
Score7490
Price level global55.933.7
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroManila
Score8361
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months64
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
16 h 15 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

MeasureFaroManila
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroManila
City population64,5601,902,590
People per km²31976,104
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3439
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.