VacationSelector

Geneva or Manila?

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

Your match

Geneva
50
match

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

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GenevaManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
GenevaManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km433
Coast distance279 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
GenevaManila
Score7058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0281,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
GenevaManila
Score5250
Museums within 10 km3577
Museums within 2 km of centre2023
Share of museums within 2 km %5730
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 11 points.11
GenevaManila
Score5061
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7835
Nightclubs within 4 km6036
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
GenevaManila
Score5929
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km182 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
GenevaManila
Score6560
Tourist attractions within 2 km2837
Park area within 2 km182 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GenevaManila
Score5652
Notable places within 2 km9979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 55 points.55
GenevaManila
Score3590
Price level global110.533.7
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 2 points.2
GenevaManila
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
Addis AbabaADD
6 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
11 h 10 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

MeasureGenevaManila
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m9 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaManila
City population209,0611,902,590
People per km²13,14876,104
Museums within 10 km3527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8039
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.