VacationSelector

Manila or Santiago de Compostela?

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 beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance2 km26 km
Water distance2 km26 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 10 points.10
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score5848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1723
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 6 points.6
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score5044
Museums within 10 km7716
Museums within 2 km of centre2314
Share of museums within 2 km %3088
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manila leads by 25 points.25
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score6136
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3588
Nightclubs within 4 km3613
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score2946
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7892
Park area within 2 km54 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 33 points.33
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score6027
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km54 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 10 points.10
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7944
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score9071
Price level global33.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
ManilaSantiago de Compostela
Score6162
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaSantiago de Compostela
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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.

Before you go

MeasureManilaSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m260 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaSantiago de Compostela
City population1,902,590100,965
People per km²76,104459
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3938
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.