VacationSelector

Manila or Tampa?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

ManilaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 1 points.1
ManilaTampa
Score7675
Swim season months128
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaTampa
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1731
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 23 points.23
ManilaTampa
Score5027
Museums within 10 km7713
Museums within 2 km of centre2310
Share of museums within 2 km %3077
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 22 points.22
ManilaTampa
Score6139
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3570
Nightclubs within 4 km3626
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 1 points.1
ManilaTampa
Score2930
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7872
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 30 points.30
ManilaTampa
Score6030
Tourist attractions within 2 km373
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 31 points.31
ManilaTampa
Score5221
Notable places within 2 km7913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
ManilaTampa
Score9043
Price level global33.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
ManilaTampa
Score6175
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months41
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaTampa
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
13 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureManilaTampa
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m30 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaTampa
City population1,902,590384,959
People per km²76,104848
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3947
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. 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.