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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Manila or Melbourne?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Manila for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’s own page.

Choose Melbourne for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Manila 12, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Manila 42, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Manila 26, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Melbourne 31: Manila leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Melbourne.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Manila
48match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManilaMelbourne
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation9 m31 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMelbourne
City population1,902,5905,350,705
People per km²76,104535
Museums within 10 km2743
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.