VacationSelector

Manila or Sorrento?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ManilaSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 1 points.1
ManilaSorrento
Score7677
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km378
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 39 points.39
ManilaSorrento
Score5819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km175
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 13 points.13
ManilaSorrento
Score5037
Museums within 10 km777
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %3057
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Manila leads by 39 points.39
ManilaSorrento
Score6122
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3573
Nightclubs within 4 km362
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 6 points.6
ManilaSorrento
Score2923
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7842
Park area within 2 km54 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 55 points.55
ManilaSorrento
Score605
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km54 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 42 points.42
ManilaSorrento
Score5210
Notable places within 2 km797
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 22 points.22
ManilaSorrento
Score9068
Price level global33.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 12 points.12
ManilaSorrento
Score6173
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaSorrento
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureManilaSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaSorrento
City population1,902,59015,407
People per km²76,1041,541
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3911
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.