VacationSelector

Kotor or Manila?

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

Your match

Kotor
36
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

KotorManila
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 1 points.1
KotorManila
Score7776
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km503
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 32 points.32
KotorManila
Score2658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre711,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1917
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 22 points.22
KotorManila
Score2850
Museums within 10 km777
Museums within 2 km of centre323
Share of museums within 2 km %4330
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Manila leads by 57 points.57
KotorManila
Score461
Drinking venues within 4 km461,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8335
Nightclubs within 4 km336
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 14 points.14
KotorManila
Score1529
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6678
Park area within 2 km2 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 51 points.51
KotorManila
Score960
Tourist attractions within 2 km837
Park area within 2 km2 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 31 points.31
KotorManila
Score2152
Notable places within 2 km1379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 3 points.3
KotorManila
Score8790
Price level global38.933.7
Daily budget€95—
Year-round weather. Kotor and Manila are level on 61.
KotorManila
Score6161
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months14
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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorManila
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
4 h 25 m
no fares
TGD · 40 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
16 h 45 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

MeasureKotorManila
Official languageMontenegrinEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–18 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorManila
City population5621,902,590
People per km²–76,104
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2739
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. 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. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.