VacationSelector

Lucerne or Manila?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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.

LucerneManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
LucerneManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km163
Coast distance669 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 11 points.11
LucerneManila
Score4758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2517
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 10 points.10
LucerneManila
Score4050
Museums within 10 km2377
Museums within 2 km of centre1323
Share of museums within 2 km %5730
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 33 points.33
LucerneManila
Score2861
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7535
Nightclubs within 4 km1136
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 4 points.4
LucerneManila
Score2529
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km29 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 22 points.22
LucerneManila
Score3860
Tourist attractions within 2 km1537
Park area within 2 km29 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 17 points.17
LucerneManila
Score3552
Notable places within 2 km2979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 55 points.55
LucerneManila
Score3590
Price level global110.533.7
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 8 points.8
LucerneManila
Score5361
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months04
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLucerneManila
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m9 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneManila
City population86,2341,902,590
People per km²2,96376,104
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4639
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.