Skip to content
Mixroutes
Paranaque City
Highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines

Paranaque City

Parañaque, officially the City of Parañaque, is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

Plan a trip to Paranaque City→From Olongapo

According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 703,245 people.

Get in

Getting to Paranaque City

By plane, one arrives here at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which straddles the city limits into nearby Pasay. Provincial buses, from southern Luzon come at the new multi-story airport-style bus station near the Entertainment City. LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) serves Parañaque directly since 2024, with trains running to Dr. Santos station (near SM City Sucat).

  1. 01
    Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange
See

Worth seeing

Despite having good transport conditions, Parañaque is not much a city with a good collection of sights, due to its sprawling and squalid nature. All that said, there are some few scattered sights around.

  1. 01
    Baclaran Church
  2. 02
    Parañaque Cathedral

    The original church was founded 1580, but were torn down in preparation of the invasion of the Chinese pirate Koxinga.

  3. 03
    Battle of Don Galo
  4. 04
    Manila Memorial Park

    Founded in 1964, it is the first cemetery in the Philippines to open to cremations after the Catholic ban was lifted.

  5. 05
    The Fountain at Okada Manila

    Okada Manila.

  6. 06
    DreamPlay Manila

    The characters from DreamWorks films feature at this state-of-the-art center for kids' activities.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat

    A rare thing, natural habitat extant in these parts.

  2. 02
    Solaire Resort & Casino

    Opened in 2013 as the first resort and casino constructed in Entertainment City.

  3. 03
    City of Dreams Manila

    It was planned as the Belle Grande Manila Bay.

  4. 04
    Okada Manila

    It houses a large fountain and a man-made indoor beach.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Alley

    3F Ayala Malls Manila Bay, Diosdado Macapagal Blvd, cor Aseana Avenue.

How locals move

Getting around Paranaque City the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • Bacoor-PITX Shanhai UV Express: Bacoor → PITX · Shanhai Transport Inc.
  • Molino–Lawton via Coastal Road UV Express
  • Molino–Lawton via Coastal Road UV Express (inbound)
  • ACPC Pacita Complex–Ayala Center UV Express (outbound) · Reysal Public Transportation Association; San Pedro Van Drivers
  • ACPC Pacita Complex–Ayala Center via San Pedro Exit UV Express (inbound) · Reysal Public Transportation Association; San Pedro Van Drivers
  • Kalayaana Tawiran - Baden Powell Court · WERTODA
  • C85 Lawton–Paliparan Site UV Express
  • C85 Paliparan Site–Park N' Ride Lawton UV Express (inbound)

OpenStreetMap contributors.

  • Get aroundJeepneys and buses are the main mode of transport in the city.
  • Get aroundNumerous jeepney routes ply its major thoroughfare, the notoriously jammed Alabang-Zapote Road.

From Wikivoyage: Las Piñas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.