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Philippines / Southeast Asia

Manila City Intelligence

Manila is the Philippines' capital and a coastal Southeast Asian metropolis with a deep services economy, growing tech sector, and active climate-adaptation work. Manila is a southeast asia city of about 14.6M metro in Philippines. On the composite city-intelligence score, Manila sits around the indexed median (70/100).

Last updated
2026-05-07
Data year
2025
Population
14.6M metro

Overall score

Manila is most useful for users comparing affordability and services in Southeast Asia against typhoon, flood, and infrastructure modernization needs.

Overall70/100
Affordability78/100
Air quality60/100
Energy66/100

Overall city intelligence

Good

70/100

Strong affordability and services profile balanced against typhoon and modernization needs.

Affordability profile

Favorable

Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable.

Services economy

Strong

Business-process services and creative industries shape opportunity.

Manila data table

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Manila city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score70/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living78/100Manila offers strong affordability for a major Southeast Asian capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life.
Air Quality60/100Manila's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and meteorology, with active monitoring and policy attention.
Energy66/100Manila's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption.
Safety66/100Manila has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.
Internet Speed76/100Manila has solid fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting a deep business-process services and creative-economy sector.
Climate Risk56/100Manila faces meaningful climate exposure from typhoons, coastal flooding, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale.
Resilience60/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

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Cost of Living in Manila

Manila offers strong affordability for a major Southeast Asian capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life.

Air Quality in Manila

Manila's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and meteorology, with active monitoring and policy attention.

Energy in Manila

Manila's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption.

Safety in Manila

Manila has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.

Internet Speed in Manila

Manila has solid fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting a deep business-process services and creative-economy sector.

Climate Risk in Manila

Manila faces meaningful climate exposure from typhoons, coastal flooding, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale.

City rankings

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Interpretation

Manila is most useful for users comparing affordability and services in Southeast Asia against typhoon, flood, and infrastructure modernization needs. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (78/100) and internet speed (76/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (56/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the Philippines country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Manila appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

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Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.