VacationSelector

Manila or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

ManilaParis
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaParis
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance2 km149 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 32 points.32
ManilaParis
Score5890
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0154,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1733
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 26 points.26
ManilaParis
Score5076
Museums within 10 km77185
Museums within 2 km of centre2365
Share of museums within 2 km %3035
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 27 points.27
ManilaParis
Score6188
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0823,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3741,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3545
Nightclubs within 4 km36201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ManilaParis
Score2948
Protected land share 50 km %428
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 15 points.15
ManilaParis
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km3789
Park area within 2 km54 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 42 points.42
ManilaParis
Score5294
Notable places within 2 km79865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 28 points.28
ManilaParis
Score9062
Price level global33.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 5 points.5
ManilaParis
Score6166
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months41
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaParis
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
11 h 10 m
€509-719
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 30 m
€425-436
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
HanoiHAN
2 h 45 m
€182-214
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureManilaParis
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 m27 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaParis
City population1,902,5902,103,778
People per km²76,10419,960
Museums within 10 km27251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre39169
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.