VacationSelector

Manila or New York?

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

Your match

Manila
60
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

ManilaNew York
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 12 points.12
ManilaNew York
Score7664
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km317
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 37 points.37
ManilaNew York
Score5895
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0156,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1738
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 10 points.10
ManilaNew York
Score5060
Museums within 10 km77119
Museums within 2 km of centre2331
Share of museums within 2 km %3026
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 28 points.28
ManilaNew York
Score6189
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0824,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3742,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3548
Nightclubs within 4 km36192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 10 points.10
ManilaNew York
Score2939
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7869
Park area within 2 km54 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 12 points.12
ManilaNew York
Score6072
Tourist attractions within 2 km3737
Park area within 2 km54 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. New York leads by 22 points.22
ManilaNew York
Score5274
Notable places within 2 km79268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
ManilaNew York
Score9043
Price level global33.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 3 points.3
ManilaNew York
Score6158
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaNew York
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
RiyadhRUH
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
SydneySYD, WSI
8 h 0 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureManilaNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaNew York
City population1,902,5908,804,190
People per km²76,1047,256
Museums within 10 km27157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre39132
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.