VacationSelector

Manila or Monaco?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ManilaMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 3 points.3
ManilaMonaco
Score7673
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km350
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaMonaco
Score5839
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1716
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 12 points.12
ManilaMonaco
Score5038
Museums within 10 km7723
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %3035
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manila leads by 53 points.53
ManilaMonaco
Score618
Drinking venues within 4 km1,08269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37463
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3591
Nightclubs within 4 km367
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
ManilaMonaco
Score2953
Protected land share 50 km %424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %7854
Park area within 2 km54 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 25 points.25
ManilaMonaco
Score6035
Tourist attractions within 2 km3714
Park area within 2 km54 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
ManilaMonaco
Score5264
Notable places within 2 km79154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
ManilaMonaco
Score6174
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months43
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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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaMonaco
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
RiyadhRUH
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 18 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureManilaMonaco
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m68 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMonaco
City population1,902,59038,857
People per km²76,10418,503
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3929
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.