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
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
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 14.6M metro
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Overall city intelligence
Good70/100
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
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 70/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 78/100 | Manila offers strong affordability for a major Southeast Asian capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life. |
| Air Quality | 60/100 | Manila's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and meteorology, with active monitoring and policy attention. |
| Energy | 66/100 | Manila's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption. |
| Safety | 66/100 | Manila has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern. |
| Internet Speed | 76/100 | Manila has solid fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting a deep business-process services and creative-economy sector. |
| Climate Risk | 56/100 | Manila faces meaningful climate exposure from typhoons, coastal flooding, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale. |
| Resilience | 60/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Safety
Deterministic safety estimates from our index — planning signals derived from country priors and city data, not official crime statistics.
Safety
Overall safety52/100
Low crime53/100
Personal safety54/100
Night safety45/100
Road safety56/100
Manila has a moderate safety estimate (52/100); standard urban precautions are advised, particularly after dark.
Quality of Life
A composite quality-of-life estimate and its component indicators.
Quality of Life
Quality of life59/100
Healthcare63/100
Education69/100
Green space41/100
Cleanliness57/100
Infrastructure69/100
Mobility66/100
Manila has a moderate quality-of-life estimate (59/100) across our combined indicators.
Family Friendliness
How the city scores for raising a family, with the indicators that drive it.
Family Friendliness
Family friendliness58/100
Education69/100
Green space41/100
Overall safety52/100
Manila scores moderate for family living (58/100).
Digital Nomad Suitability
Suitability for remote workers, based on connectivity, mobility, and livability.
Digital Nomad Suitability
Digital nomad suitability68/100
Walkability83/100
Cycling60/100
Infrastructure69/100
Manila is high for remote workers (68/100), based on connectivity, affordability and walkability and day-to-day amenities.
Retirement Suitability
Suitability for retirement, weighing healthcare, affordability, climate, and environment.
Retirement Suitability
Retirement suitability60/100
Healthcare63/100
Cleanliness57/100
Outdoor lifestyle21/100
Manila is moderate for retirement (60/100), appealing for affordability.
Emergency and public safety in Manila
Local public safety guidance for Manila, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Manila, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Philippines emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Manila
Healthcare context for Manila, with national-level information from Philippines where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Manila, see the Philippines healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Manila
Local mobility context for Manila, with national-level context from Philippines where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Manila, see the Philippines transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Manila. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Manila
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Manila will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Manila air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Manila modules
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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
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Manila
Cost of living estimates for Manila — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Climate in Manila
Climate profile for Manila — Tropical climate, annual average 25.6°C, comfort score 58/100. Month-by-month temperatures, rainfall, sunshine, and the best months to visit. Deterministic planning estimates, not a forecast.
Economy and jobs in Manila
Economy and jobs profile for Manila — tourism economy, economy score 62/100, key industries including government, tourism, hospitality. Employment, salary, startup, remote-work, and career indicators. Deterministic planning estimates.
Universities and education in Manila
Education profile for Manila — regional education center, education score 65/100, 7 representative universities, plus research, student life, and international-student indicators. Deterministic dataset, not institutional rankings.
Healthcare and retirement in Manila
Healthcare and retirement profile for Manila — regional healthcare center, healthcare score 62/100, retirement score 62/100. Medical access, specialist and emergency care, affordability, and retirement suitability. Deterministic planning estimates.
Estimate a monthly budget for Manila
Estimate a monthly budget for Manila using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Manila
Plan a trip budget for Manila using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Manila
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Manila. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Cebu, Philippines
Same region · about 574 km from Manila. Explore Cebu's city intelligence profile.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Cross-border · about 895 km from Manila. Explore Kaohsiung's city intelligence profile.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cross-border · about 1116 km from Manila. Explore Hong Kong's city intelligence profile.
Shenzhen, China
Cross-border · about 1146 km from Manila. Explore Shenzhen's city intelligence profile.
Taipei, Taiwan
Cross-border · about 1163 km from Manila. Explore Taipei's city intelligence profile.
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 2026-05-16. 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.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.