VacationSelector

Manila or Vancouver?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

ManilaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaVancouver
Score7660
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km3109
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 16 points.16
ManilaVancouver
Score5874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1735
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 16 points.16
ManilaVancouver
Score5034
Museums within 10 km7727
Museums within 2 km of centre2315
Share of museums within 2 km %3056
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaVancouver
Score6157
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3571
Nightclubs within 4 km3644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 48 points.48
ManilaVancouver
Score2977
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7860
Park area within 2 km54 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 7 points.7
ManilaVancouver
Score6053
Tourist attractions within 2 km3715
Park area within 2 km54 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaVancouver
Score5248
Notable places within 2 km7963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
ManilaVancouver
Score9054
Price level global33.784
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaVancouver
Score6153
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months40
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaVancouver
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SydneySYD, WSI
8 h 0 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureManilaVancouver
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, English
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m2 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaVancouver
City population1,902,590662,248
People per km²76,1045,759
Museums within 10 km2726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3985
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. 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.