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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manila or Yogyakarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Manila for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’s own page.

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Manila 12, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Yogyakarta 62: Manila leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Yogyakarta 32: Manila leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Manila 42, Yogyakarta 40: Manila leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Manila 26, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Manila 60, Yogyakarta 52: Manila leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Manila 77, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Yogyakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Manila
48match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureManilaYogyakarta
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishIndonesian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m113 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManilaYogyakarta
City population1,902,590422,732
People per km²76,10413,007
Museums within 10 km2738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.