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Manila or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
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.

ManilaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.12
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score7688
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 21 points.21
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score5837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1714
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 33 points.33
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score5017
Museums within 10 km775
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3060
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 41 points.41
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score6120
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3568
Nightclubs within 4 km3610
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.40
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score2969
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7845
Park area within 2 km54 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 39 points.39
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score6021
Tourist attractions within 2 km373
Park area within 2 km54 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 40 points.40
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score5212
Notable places within 2 km798
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 47 points.47
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score9043
Price level global33.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.14
ManilaWest Palm Beach
Score6175
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
13 h 5 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 30 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureManilaWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaWest Palm Beach
City population1,902,590117,415
People per km²76,104786
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3918
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.