VacationSelector

Manila or Montreal?

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.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

ManilaMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaMontreal
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance2 km276 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
ManilaMontreal
Score5874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1749
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 13 points.13
ManilaMontreal
Score5037
Museums within 10 km7739
Museums within 2 km of centre2319
Share of museums within 2 km %3049
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
ManilaMontreal
Score6162
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0821,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3549
Nightclubs within 4 km3674
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
ManilaMontreal
Score2936
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 10 points.10
ManilaMontreal
Score6050
Tourist attractions within 2 km3711
Park area within 2 km54 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
ManilaMontreal
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
ManilaMontreal
Score9054
Price level global33.784
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 11 points.11
ManilaMontreal
Score6150
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaMontreal
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 0 m
€190-216
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureManilaMontreal
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, English
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m31 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMontreal
City population1,902,5901,895,211
People per km²76,1043,806
Museums within 10 km2737
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3997
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.