VacationSelector

Manila or Rome?

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.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

ManilaRome
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 43 points.43
ManilaRome
Score7633
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km33
Coast distance2 km24 km
Water distance2 km24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 2 points.2
ManilaRome
Score5860
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0152,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1710
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 34 points.34
ManilaRome
Score5084
Museums within 10 km77161
Museums within 2 km of centre2379
Share of museums within 2 km %3049
Unesco sites within 50 km17
Nightlife. Rome leads by 13 points.13
ManilaRome
Score6174
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0822,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3545
Nightclubs within 4 km3685
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 41 points.41
ManilaRome
Score2970
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7878
Park area within 2 km54 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 26 points.26
ManilaRome
Score6086
Tourist attractions within 2 km37126
Park area within 2 km54 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 47 points.47
ManilaRome
Score5299
Notable places within 2 km791,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 22 points.22
ManilaRome
Score9068
Price level global33.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 10 points.10
ManilaRome
Score6171
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

MeasureManilaRome
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m21 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaRome
City population1,902,5902,748,109
People per km²76,1042,135
Museums within 10 km27177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Distinct cuisines in the centre3965
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.