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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Manila or Saint-Tropez?

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

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

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Saint-Tropez 48: Manila leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Saint-Tropez 35: Manila leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Saint-Tropez 60: Manila leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Manila and Saint-Tropez are level on 42.
Getting around. Manila 26, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Saint-Tropez 8: Manila leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Saint-Tropez 18: Manila leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Saint-Tropez 35: Manila leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Manila
48match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManilaSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m0 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaSaint-Tropez
City population1,902,5903,582
People per km²76,104320
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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. 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.

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.