VacationSelector

Manila or Miami?

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

Your match

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

ManilaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 19 points.19
ManilaMiami
Score7695
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 7 points.7
ManilaMiami
Score5865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 27 points.27
ManilaMiami
Score5023
Museums within 10 km7728
Museums within 2 km of centre236
Share of museums within 2 km %3021
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 11 points.11
ManilaMiami
Score6150
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3553
Nightclubs within 4 km3663
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 43 points.43
ManilaMiami
Score2972
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7848
Park area within 2 km54 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaMiami
Score6044
Tourist attractions within 2 km3714
Park area within 2 km54 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 10 points.10
ManilaMiami
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
ManilaMiami
Score9043
Price level global33.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 13 points.13
ManilaMiami
Score6174
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months40
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
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 50 m
€344-394
MIA · 7 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureManilaMiami
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m2 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMiami
City population1,902,590442,241
People per km²76,1043,046
Museums within 10 km2717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3939
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.