VacationSelector

Manila or Thessaloniki?

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, 1 point apart

Manila
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

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

ManilaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 21 points.21
ManilaThessaloniki
Score7655
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaThessaloniki
Score5850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1715
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 1 points.1
ManilaThessaloniki
Score5049
Museums within 10 km7734
Museums within 2 km of centre2322
Share of museums within 2 km %3065
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
ManilaThessaloniki
Score6167
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0821,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3557
Nightclubs within 4 km3661
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 36 points.36
ManilaThessaloniki
Score2965
Protected land share 50 km %425
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7883
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaThessaloniki
Score6041
Tourist attractions within 2 km3716
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
ManilaThessaloniki
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaThessaloniki
Score9074
Price level global33.755.8
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
ManilaThessaloniki
Score6172
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months49
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaThessaloniki
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureManilaThessaloniki
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaThessaloniki
City population1,902,590309,617
People per km²76,10416,042
Museums within 10 km2731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3945
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.