VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Manila?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

Los AngelesManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 47 points.47
Los AngelesManila
Score2976
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km03
Swim season months012
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesManila
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesManila
Score4950
Museums within 10 km6977
Museums within 2 km of centre2323
Share of museums within 2 km %3330
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesManila
Score5461
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6535
Nightclubs within 4 km6436
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 33 points.33
Los AngelesManila
Score6229
Protected land share 50 km %264
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8078
Park area within 2 km20 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesManila
Score3360
Tourist attractions within 2 km1137
Park area within 2 km20 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesManila
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8879
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
Los AngelesManila
Score4390
Price level global10033.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesManila
Score8761
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months84
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
14 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
SydneySYD, WSI
14 h 50 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
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

MeasureLos AngelesManila
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m9 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesManila
City population3,898,7471,902,590
People per km²2,99476,104
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4639
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). 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.