VacationSelector

Manila or Paphos?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

ManilaPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 3 points.3
ManilaPaphos
Score7679
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km327
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 14 points.14
ManilaPaphos
Score5844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1722
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 28 points.28
ManilaPaphos
Score5022
Museums within 10 km778
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3038
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manila leads by 31 points.31
ManilaPaphos
Score6130
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3572
Nightclubs within 4 km3611
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 6 points.6
ManilaPaphos
Score2923
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7833
Park area within 2 km54 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 18 points.18
ManilaPaphos
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km3730
Park area within 2 km54 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 33 points.33
ManilaPaphos
Score5219
Notable places within 2 km7912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 20 points.20
ManilaPaphos
Score9070
Price level global33.761.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
ManilaPaphos
Score6186
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaPaphos
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 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

MeasureManilaPaphos
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m72 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPaphos
City population1,902,59035,961
People per km²76,1041,987
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3936
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.