VacationSelector

Lima or Manila?

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

Your match

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

LimaManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 39 points.39
LimaManila
Score3776
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance6 km2 km
Water distance6 km2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 6 points.6
LimaManila
Score5258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1417
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaManila
Score6450
Museums within 10 km8977
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %5330
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 16 points.16
LimaManila
Score4561
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4335
Nightclubs within 4 km6336
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 2 points.2
LimaManila
Score2729
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5178
Park area within 2 km54 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 4 points.4
LimaManila
Score5660
Tourist attractions within 2 km2537
Park area within 2 km54 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 6 points.6
LimaManila
Score4652
Notable places within 2 km5479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 10 points.10
LimaManila
Score8090
Price level global47.733.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
LimaManila
Score9261
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months124
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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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaManila
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
12 h 55 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

MeasureLimaManila
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySol (PEN)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m9 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaManila
City population9,943,8001,902,590
People per km²3,72176,104
Museums within 10 km4627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3339
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). 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.