VacationSelector

Manila or Montpellier?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
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.

ManilaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 44 points.44
ManilaMontpellier
Score7632
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km38
Coast distance2 km9 km
Water distance2 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
ManilaMontpellier
Score5865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1734
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 24 points.24
ManilaMontpellier
Score5026
Museums within 10 km7714
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3021
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manila leads by 23 points.23
ManilaMontpellier
Score6138
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3583
Nightclubs within 4 km3625
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 14 points.14
ManilaMontpellier
Score2943
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %7870
Park area within 2 km54 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaMontpellier
Score6044
Tourist attractions within 2 km378
Park area within 2 km54 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 14 points.14
ManilaMontpellier
Score5238
Notable places within 2 km7935
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 28 points.28
ManilaMontpellier
Score9062
Price level global33.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
ManilaMontpellier
Score6174
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months45
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromManilaMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 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

MeasureManilaMontpellier
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m7 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMontpellier
City population1,902,590310,240
People per km²76,1045,452
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3965
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Manila or Montpellier somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.