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Barangay in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Payatas

Payatas is an administrative division in eastern Metro Manila, the Philippines.

Payatas
Payatas · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Payatas is an administrative division in eastern Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is an urban barangay located in the 2nd district of Quezon City adjacent to the barangays of Commonwealth, Batasan Hills and Bagong Silangan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Payatas

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of the Philippines

    The University of the Philippines (UP; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas is a state public university system and the national university of the Philippines under Republic Act No. 9500.

    6 km · national university of the Philippines · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ateneo de Manila University

    Ateneo de Manila University, commonly referred to as the Ateneo de Manila or the Ateneo, is a private Catholic research university in Quezon City, Philippines. Established in 1859 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of the oldest Jesuit-administered institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region.

    8.2 km · Jesuit university in Quezon City, Philippines · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Diocese of Novaliches

    The Diocese of Novaliches is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The diocese was created by Pope John Paul II on December 7, 2002, by virtue of his Apostolic Constitution Animarum Utilitati, and was canonically erected on January 16, 2003, from the Archdiocese of Manila.

    3.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Quezon Memorial Circle

    The Quezon Memorial Circle, also known as the Quezon City Circle, is a national park in Quezon City, Philippines, and a prominent landmark situated within a large elliptical roundabout known as Elliptical Road. Serving as the main park of Quezon City, which was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976, the park is renowned for its centerpiece: a 66-meter -tall mausoleum.

    8.5 km · national park in Quezon City, Philippines containing the Quezon Memorial Shrine · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    University of the Philippines Diliman

    The University of the Philippines Diliman is a public research university located in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, and the flagship constituent university of the University of the Philippines System. Established in 1949 after most academic functions transferred from the Manila campus, it served as the main campus until the UP System was formed in 1972.

    7.2 km · public university in Quezon City, Philippines · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Manila Observatory

    The Manila Observatory is a non-profit research institute housed on the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. It was founded by the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, in 1865 as the Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila.

    8.5 km · observatory in Quezon City, Philippines · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    SM City North EDSA

    SM North EDSA, is a large shopping mall located in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings and opened on November 8, 1985 as The SM Center North EDSA. SM North EDSA was the first SM Supermall in the country and the largest shopping mall in the Philippines from 2008 to 2011, in 2014, and from 2015 to 2021.

    9.5 km · shopping mall in the Philippines · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ateneo Art Gallery

    The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the first of its kind in the Philippines.

    8.1 km · museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Iglesia ni Cristo Central Temple

    The Iglesia ni Cristo Central Temple is the flagship temple of the Christian new religious movement Iglesia ni Cristo. To date, it is the only INC building that is called a temple.

    6.3 km · main temple of the Iglesia ni Cristo found in Quezon City, Philippines · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Avilon Zoo

    Avilon Zoo is a 7.5-hectare zoo located in Barrio San Isidro, Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines. It is operated by the Avilon Wildlife Conservation Foundation, which also operated the Ark Avilon Zoo in Pasig.

    6.8 km · zoo located in Barrio San Isidro, Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines · Wikipedia

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Getting to Payatas

Airports
Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 24 km · Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 79 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 90 km
  • Mabalacat → Payatas
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · ₱225–300
  • Olongapo → Payatas
    89 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · ₱305–410
  • Legazpi → Payatas
    334 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · ₱3,350–5,200
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Payatas

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Payatas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTravel is quite a breeze with many bus and jeepney routes plying it, and the wide carriageways that makes it look more of a superhighway, yet you must watch out for many quirky local driving habits if you're going to drive through it.

From Wikivoyage: Quezon City/Northern Quezon City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sabang and Puerto GaleraPH

    9 ways of moving, 47 sources

    133 km
  2. 02
    CoronPH

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    El NidoPH

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Leyte IslandPH

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    595 km
  5. 05
    Tagbilaran and BoholPH

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    637 km

If you know how people move in Payatas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Payatas

Payatas is 7 km from Marikina City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Quezon Citycity of the Philippines in Metro Manila8.7 km
  • Marikinacity of the Philippines in Metro Manila6.7 km
  • Q106825municipality of the Philippines in the province of Rizal2 km
  • Q106832municipality of the Philippines in the province of Rizal2.8 km
  • Claret School of Quezon Cityschool in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines8.5 km
  • Quezon City Academyprivate secondary school in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines9.9 km