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The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Manila or Yokohama?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Manila 64, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Manila 54, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Manila 64, Yokohama 44: Manila leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manila 40, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Manila 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Manila 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Manila 26, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 61 points.
Shopping & style. Manila and Yokohama are level on 60.
Affordability. Manila 77, Yokohama 55: Manila leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manila 50, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manila 40, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manila and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Manila
48match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManilaYokohama
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishJapanese
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation9 m24 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaYokohama
City population1,902,5903,757,630
People per km²76,1048,585
Museums within 10 km2738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.