VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Manila?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Manila
60
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongManila
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongManila
Score8776
Swim season months812
Beaches 10 km653
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
Hong KongManila
Score8858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongManila
Score3650
Museums within 10 km5077
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %3430
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongManila
Score7161
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5935
Nightclubs within 4 km3736
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 35 points.35
Hong KongManila
Score6429
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2978
Park area within 2 km52 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongManila
Score5860
Tourist attractions within 2 km2737
Park area within 2 km52 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongManila
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongManila
Score6390
Price level global7233.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongManila
Score7461
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months44
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongManila
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
3 h 40 m
€202-224
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
2 h 25 m
€179-196
HKG · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€142-175
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongManila
Official languageStandard ChineseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+8
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m9 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongManila
City population7,413,0701,902,590
People per km²76,104
Museums within 10 km3927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7639
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.