VacationSelector

Manila or Tallinn?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

ManilaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 22 points.22
ManilaTallinn
Score7654
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km318
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
ManilaTallinn
Score5862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1739
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
ManilaTallinn
Score5062
Museums within 10 km7771
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %3080
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 15 points.15
ManilaTallinn
Score6146
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3580
Nightclubs within 4 km3643
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
ManilaTallinn
Score2931
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7853
Park area within 2 km54 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 9 points.9
ManilaTallinn
Score6051
Tourist attractions within 2 km3720
Park area within 2 km54 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
ManilaTallinn
Score5262
Notable places within 2 km79135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 20 points.20
ManilaTallinn
Score9070
Price level global33.762.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 13 points.13
ManilaTallinn
Score6148
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months44
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
3 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 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

MeasureManilaTallinn
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEstonian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m28 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaTallinn
City population1,902,590457,572
People per km²76,1042,871
Museums within 10 km2715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3963
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.