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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Manila or Puerto Escondido?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Manila for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’s own page.

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Manila 12, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Puerto Escondido 48: Manila leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Puerto Escondido 8: Manila leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Puerto Escondido 45: Manila leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Puerto Escondido 35: Manila leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Manila and Puerto Escondido are level on 42.
Getting around. Manila 26, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Puerto Escondido 22: Manila leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Puerto Escondido 68: Manila leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Puerto Escondido 12: Manila leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Manila
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManilaPuerto Escondido
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m60 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPuerto Escondido
City population1,902,59029,903
People per km²76,104-
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.