VacationSelector

Manchester or Vilnius?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

ManchesterVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
ManchesterVilnius
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1016
Coast distance27 km260 km
Water distance27 km—
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterVilnius
Score6860
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3532
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 29 points.29
ManchesterVilnius
Score4271
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre1154
Share of museums within 2 km %4873
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterVilnius
Score6246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7784
Nightclubs within 4 km8239
Nature & day trips. Vilnius leads by 5 points.5
ManchesterVilnius
Score3641
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 19 points.19
ManchesterVilnius
Score3251
Tourist attractions within 2 km527
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 17 points.17
ManchesterVilnius
Score4865
Notable places within 2 km61161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 22 points.22
ManchesterVilnius
Score5476
Price level global84.953.1
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterVilnius
Score5453
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm41 mm to 90 mm
Dry months00
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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.

Before you go

MeasureManchesterVilnius
Official languageEnglishLithuanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m98 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterVilnius
City population547,627581,475
People per km²4,7371,450
Museums within 10 km2830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6354
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.