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Fort Lauderdale or Manila?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

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

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleManila
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.8
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score8476
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km73
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 13 points.13
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score4558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1817
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 30 points.30
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score2050
Museums within 10 km1477
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %4330
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Manila leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score3461
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5635
Nightclubs within 4 km1836
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score8129
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5178
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score1960
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score052
Notable places within 2 km279
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score4390
Price level global10033.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleManila
Score7661
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleManila
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
6 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleManila
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m9 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleManila
City population182,7601,902,590
People per km²1,82976,104
Museums within 10 km627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2539
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.