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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Manila or Stockholm?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Manila and Stockholm are level on 64.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Stockholm 57: Manila leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Manila 42, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Manila 26, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Stockholm 30: Manila leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Manila
48match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

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 centre90 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.