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Manila or Porto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Manila
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ManilaPorto
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaPorto
Score7660
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km352
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 10 points.10
ManilaPorto
Score5868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1727
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 21 points.21
ManilaPorto
Score5071
Museums within 10 km77101
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %3056
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Manila leads by 3 points.3
ManilaPorto
Score6158
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3563
Nightclubs within 4 km3638
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 4 points.4
ManilaPorto
Score2933
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7861
Park area within 2 km54 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 5 points.5
ManilaPorto
Score6065
Tourist attractions within 2 km37122
Park area within 2 km54 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 2 points.2
ManilaPorto
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7985
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaPorto
Score9074
Price level global33.755.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 10 points.10
ManilaPorto
Score6171
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months43
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 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

MeasureManilaPorto
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishPortuguese
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m104 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPorto
City population1,902,590231,800
People per km²76,1045,599
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3970
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.