VacationSelector

Manila or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Manila
60
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

ManilaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaStockholm
Score7660
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km373
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
ManilaStockholm
Score5876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1736
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
ManilaStockholm
Score5069
Museums within 10 km7774
Museums within 2 km of centre2347
Share of museums within 2 km %3064
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
ManilaStockholm
Score6164
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0821,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3563
Nightclubs within 4 km36106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
ManilaStockholm
Score2941
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7877
Park area within 2 km54 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 3 points.3
ManilaStockholm
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km3723
Park area within 2 km54 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
ManilaStockholm
Score5279
Notable places within 2 km79357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 33 points.33
ManilaStockholm
Score9057
Price level global33.780.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaStockholm
Score6153
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months45
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaStockholm
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureManilaStockholm
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSwedish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m22 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaStockholm
City population1,902,590984,748
People per km²76,1045,260
Museums within 10 km27266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3981
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.