VacationSelector

Manila or York?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ManilaYork
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaYork
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance2 km50 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaYork
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1731
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaYork
Score5046
Museums within 10 km7718
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %3089
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manila leads by 18 points.18
ManilaYork
Score6143
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3578
Nightclubs within 4 km3614
Nature & day trips. York leads by 4 points.4
ManilaYork
Score2933
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %7895
Park area within 2 km54 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 17 points.17
ManilaYork
Score6043
Tourist attractions within 2 km3713
Park area within 2 km54 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 13 points.13
ManilaYork
Score5239
Notable places within 2 km7937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 36 points.36
ManilaYork
Score9054
Price level global33.784.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 5 points.5
ManilaYork
Score6156
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months41
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaYork
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
16 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RiyadhRUH
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureManilaYork
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation9 m25 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaYork
City population1,902,590208,400
People per km²76,104766
Museums within 10 km2724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3954
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.