VacationSelector

Manila or Palermo?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

ManilaPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 9 points.9
ManilaPalermo
Score7667
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km313
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaPalermo
Score5850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1713
Museums & heritage. Manila and Palermo are level on 50.
ManilaPalermo
Score5050
Museums within 10 km7732
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3081
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaPalermo
Score6153
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3564
Nightclubs within 4 km3616
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
ManilaPalermo
Score2936
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7845
Park area within 2 km54 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaPalermo
Score6041
Tourist attractions within 2 km3716
Park area within 2 km54 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
ManilaPalermo
Score5257
Notable places within 2 km79104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 22 points.22
ManilaPalermo
Score9068
Price level global33.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
ManilaPalermo
Score6177
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months47
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaPalermo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureManilaPalermo
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m14 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPalermo
City population1,902,590630,167
People per km²76,1043,924
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3933
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.