VacationSelector

Manila or Reykjavik?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ManilaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaReykjavik
Score7660
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 9 points.9
ManilaReykjavik
Score5849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Manila and Reykjavik are level on 50.
ManilaReykjavik
Score5050
Museums within 10 km7734
Museums within 2 km of centre2323
Share of museums within 2 km %3068
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 34 points.34
ManilaReykjavik
Score6127
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3586
Nightclubs within 4 km3610
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 30 points.30
ManilaReykjavik
Score2959
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7856
Park area within 2 km54 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 18 points.18
ManilaReykjavik
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km3721
Park area within 2 km54 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaReykjavik
Score5248
Notable places within 2 km7961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 49 points.49
ManilaReykjavik
Score9041
Price level global33.7102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 24 points.24
ManilaReykjavik
Score6137
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months40
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaReykjavik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureManilaReykjavik
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishIcelandic
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m8 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaReykjavik
City population1,902,590138,772
People per km²76,104569
Museums within 10 km2723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3942
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.