VacationSelector

Manila or Oslo?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

ManilaOslo
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaOslo
Score7660
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km3163
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
ManilaOslo
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1734
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 2 points.2
ManilaOslo
Score5048
Museums within 10 km7770
Museums within 2 km of centre2337
Share of museums within 2 km %3053
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaOslo
Score6153
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3581
Nightclubs within 4 km3641
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 32 points.32
ManilaOslo
Score2961
Protected land share 50 km %422
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7894
Park area within 2 km54 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 12 points.12
ManilaOslo
Score6048
Tourist attractions within 2 km3713
Park area within 2 km54 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
ManilaOslo
Score5269
Notable places within 2 km79207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
ManilaOslo
Score9054
Price level global33.785.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 13 points.13
ManilaOslo
Score6148
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaOslo
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureManilaOslo
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation9 m23 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaOslo
City population1,902,590717,710
People per km²76,104
Museums within 10 km2760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3975
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. 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.