VacationSelector

Manila or Valencia?

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

Your match

Manila
60
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
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.

ManilaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 9 points.9
ManilaValencia
Score7667
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km312
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
ManilaValencia
Score5878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1733
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 5 points.5
ManilaValencia
Score5055
Museums within 10 km7759
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3044
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
ManilaValencia
Score6170
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0821,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3563
Nightclubs within 4 km36108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 24 points.24
ManilaValencia
Score2953
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7864
Park area within 2 km54 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 18 points.18
ManilaValencia
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km3712
Park area within 2 km54 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Manila and Valencia are level on 52.
ManilaValencia
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaValencia
Score9071
Price level global33.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
ManilaValencia
Score6184
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months48
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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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 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

MeasureManilaValencia
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m15 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaValencia
City population1,902,590840,792
People per km²76,1046,242
Museums within 10 km2746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3992
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.