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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Manila or Nice?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Manila for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’s own page.

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Manila 12, Nice 75: Nice leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Nice 66: Nice leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Nice 64: Nice leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Nice 47: Manila leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Nice 80: Nice leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Nice 87: Nice leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Manila 42, Nice 57: Nice leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Manila 26, Nice 74: Nice leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Nice 55: Manila leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Nice 35: Manila leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Nice 45: Manila leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila and Nice are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Nice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Manila
48match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManilaNice
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 m0 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaNice
City population1,902,590357,737
People per km²76,1044,975
Museums within 10 km2717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.