VacationSelector

Manila or Zurich?

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.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on places to eat and 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.

ManilaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaZurich
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km323
Coast distance2 km632 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 9 points.9
ManilaZurich
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1730
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 6 points.6
ManilaZurich
Score5056
Museums within 10 km7776
Museums within 2 km of centre2337
Share of museums within 2 km %3049
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 7 points.7
ManilaZurich
Score6154
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3582
Nightclubs within 4 km3674
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
ManilaZurich
Score2937
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 24 points.24
ManilaZurich
Score6036
Tourist attractions within 2 km378
Park area within 2 km54 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
ManilaZurich
Score5259
Notable places within 2 km79119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 55 points.55
ManilaZurich
Score9035
Price level global33.7110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 8 points.8
ManilaZurich
Score6153
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaZurich
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 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

MeasureManilaZurich
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m408 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaZurich
City population1,902,590452,421
People per km²76,1045,147
Museums within 10 km2763
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3978
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.