VacationSelector

Manila or Prague?

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.

Prague
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

ManilaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaPrague
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance2 km10,000 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 17 points.17
ManilaPrague
Score5875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 22 points.22
ManilaPrague
Score5072
Museums within 10 km77138
Museums within 2 km of centre23100
Share of museums within 2 km %3072
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 16 points.16
ManilaPrague
Score6177
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0822,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3741,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3565
Nightclubs within 4 km36123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 16 points.16
ManilaPrague
Score2945
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 15 points.15
ManilaPrague
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km3754
Park area within 2 km54 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 24 points.24
ManilaPrague
Score5276
Notable places within 2 km79310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 15 points.15
ManilaPrague
Score9075
Price level global33.755.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Manila and Prague are level on 61.
ManilaPrague
Score6161
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm22 mm to 80 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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaPrague
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
RiyadhRUH
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 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

MeasureManilaPrague
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishCzech
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m235 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPrague
City population1,902,5901,397,880
People per km²76,1042,817
Museums within 10 km2788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3989
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.