VacationSelector

Lisbon or Manila?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Manila
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.

LisbonManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 19 points.19
LisbonManila
Score5776
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km243
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
LisbonManila
Score8058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3117
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonManila
Score7050
Museums within 10 km12477
Museums within 2 km of centre5423
Share of museums within 2 km %4430
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonManila
Score6561
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2251,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7835
Nightclubs within 4 km6536
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
LisbonManila
Score5629
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5478
Park area within 2 km77 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 9 points.9
LisbonManila
Score6960
Tourist attractions within 2 km8237
Park area within 2 km77 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonManila
Score6652
Notable places within 2 km16979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 16 points.16
LisbonManila
Score7490
Price level global55.933.7
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
LisbonManila
Score7861
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 25 m
€212-255
LIS · 7 km
11 h 25 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

MeasureLisbonManila
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m9 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonManila
City population545,7961,902,590
People per km²5,45376,104
Museums within 10 km7827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10639
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.