Ranking

Largest cities and municipalities in the Philippines

Quezon City (Metro Manila) is the largest of the 1,642 cities and municipalities in the Philippines, with 3,084,270 people at the 2024 census.^[1]

Below are the first 100 of 1,642 cities and municipalities, ordered by their people in the 2024 census, each with its 2020 count and its change since.

People are counted as of July 1, 2024 (the 2024 Census of Population) and May 1, 2020 (the 2020 Census of Population and Housing), both by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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Largest cities and municipalities in the Philippines, top 100
Rank	Name	Province or region	People, 2024	People, 2020	Change since 2020
1	Quezon City	Metro Manila	3,084,270	2,960,048	+4.2%
2	Manila	Metro Manila	1,902,590	1,846,513	+3.0%
3	Davao City	Davao del Sur	1,848,947	1,776,949	+4.1%
4	Caloocan City	Metro Manila	1,712,945	1,661,584	+3.1%
5	Taguig City	Metro Manila	1,308,085	1,223,595	+6.9%
6	Zamboanga City	Zamboanga del Sur	1,018,849	977,234	+4.3%
7	Cebu City	Cebu	965,332	964,169	+0.1%
8	Antipolo City	Rizal	913,712	887,399	+3.0%
9	Pasig City	Metro Manila	853,050	803,159	+6.2%
10	Dasmariñas City	Cavite	744,511	703,141	+5.9%
11	Cagayan De Oro City	Misamis Oriental	741,617	728,402	+1.8%
12	Valenzuela City	Metro Manila	725,173	714,978	+1.4%
13	General Santos City	South Cotabato	722,059	697,315	+3.6%
14	Parañaque City	Metro Manila	703,245	689,992	+1.9%
15	San Jose Del Monte City	Bulacan	685,688	651,813	+5.2%
16	Bacoor City	Cavite	661,381	664,625	−0.5%
17	Bacolod City	Negros Occidental	624,787	600,783	+4.0%
18	Las Piñas City	Metro Manila	615,549	606,293	+1.5%
19	Biñan City	Laguna	584,479	407,437	+43.5%
20	Calamba City	Laguna	575,046	539,671	+6.6%
21	Muntinlupa City	Metro Manila	552,225	543,445	+1.6%
22	Lapu-Lapu City	Cebu	497,813	497,604	+0.0%
23	Angeles City	Pampanga	483,452	462,928	+4.4%
24	General Trias City	Cavite	482,453	450,583	+7.1%
25	Imus City	Cavite	481,949	496,794	−3.0%
26	Iloilo City	Iloilo	473,728	457,626	+3.5%
27	Marikina City	Metro Manila	471,323	456,059	+3.4%
28	Mandaluyong City	Metro Manila	465,902	425,758	+9.4%
29	Pasay City	Metro Manila	453,186	440,656	+2.8%
30	Rodriguez	Rizal	451,383	443,954	+1.7%
31	Santa Rosa City	Laguna	430,920	414,812	+3.9%
32	Tarlac City	Tarlac	401,892	385,398	+4.3%
33	Taytay	Rizal	397,111	386,451	+2.8%
34	Malabon City	Metro Manila	389,929	380,522	+2.5%
35	Lipa City	Batangas	387,392	372,931	+3.9%
36	Cainta	Rizal	386,321	376,933	+2.5%
37	Butuan City	Agusan del Norte	385,530	372,910	+3.4%
38	Cotabato City	Maguindanao del Norte	383,383	325,079	+17.9%
39	San Fernando City	Pampanga	377,534	354,666	+6.5%
40	Baguio City	Benguet	368,426	366,358	+0.6%
41	Iligan City	Lanao del Norte	368,132	363,115	+1.4%
42	Cabuyao City	Laguna	365,202	355,330	+2.8%
43	Mandaue City	Cebu	364,482	364,116	+0.1%
44	Batangas City	Batangas	358,267	351,437	+1.9%
45	San Pedro City	Laguna	348,968	326,001	+7.1%
46	Cabanatuan City	Nueva Ecija	343,672	327,325	+5.0%
47	Tanza	Cavite	339,308	312,116	+8.7%
48	Santa Maria	Bulacan	322,525	289,820	+11.3%
49	Binangonan	Rizal	321,281	313,631	+2.4%
50	Puerto Princesa City	Palawan	316,384	307,079	+3.0%
51	Silang	Cavite	313,145	295,644	+5.9%
52	Makati City	Metro Manila	309,770	292,743	+5.8%
53	Mabalacat City	Pampanga	306,594	293,244	+4.6%
54	San Pablo City	Laguna	300,166	285,348	+5.2%
55	Tagum City	Davao del Norte	300,042	296,202	+1.3%
56	Lucena City	Quezon	280,331	278,924	+0.5%
57	San Mateo	Rizal	276,449	273,306	+1.2%
58	Malolos City	Bulacan	269,809	261,189	+3.3%
59	Olongapo City	Zambales	264,903	260,317	+1.8%
60	Talisay City	Cebu	263,832	263,048	+0.3%
61	Marilao	Bulacan	263,507	254,453	+3.6%
62	Marawi City	Lanao del Sur	259,993	207,010	+25.6%
63	Tacloban City	Leyte	259,353	251,881	+3.0%
64	Navotas City	Metro Manila	252,878	247,543	+2.2%
65	Ormoc City	Leyte	238,545	230,998	+3.3%
66	Naic	Cavite	236,978	160,987	+47.2%
67	Meycauayan City	Bulacan	228,023	225,673	+1.0%
68	Trece Martires City	Cavite	227,892	210,503	+8.3%
69	Sto. Tomas City	Batangas	226,772	218,500	+3.8%
70	Valencia City	Bukidnon	223,620	216,546	+3.3%
71	Panabo City	Davao del Norte	211,242	209,230	+1.0%
72	Kabankalan City	Negros Occidental	210,893	200,198	+5.3%
73	Legazpi City	Albay	210,616	209,533	+0.5%
74	Naga City	Camarines Sur	210,545	209,170	+0.7%
75	Tanauan City	Batangas	209,697	193,936	+8.1%
76	San Carlos City	Pangasinan	208,330	205,424	+1.4%
77	Toledo City	Cebu	206,692	207,314	−0.3%
78	Pagadian City	Zamboanga del Sur	206,483	210,452	−1.9%
79	Koronadal City	South Cotabato	201,844	195,398	+3.3%
80	Malaybalay City	Bukidnon	195,046	190,712	+2.3%
81	Bago City	Negros Occidental	192,993	191,210	+0.9%
82	Digos City	Davao del Sur	192,063	188,376	+2.0%
83	Lubao	Pampanga	190,355	173,502	+9.7%
84	Calbayog City	Samar	187,848	186,960	+0.5%
85	Sorsogon City	Sorsogon	187,670	182,237	+3.0%
86	Mexico	Pampanga	187,597	173,403	+8.2%
87	Roxas City	Capiz	185,236	179,292	+3.3%
88	San Miguel	Bulacan	179,792	172,073	+4.5%
89	Concepcion	Tarlac	178,549	169,953	+5.1%
90	Surigao City	Surigao del Norte	177,333	171,107	+3.6%
91	Gen. Mariano Alvarez	Cavite	176,927	172,433	+2.6%
92	Polomolok	South Cotabato	176,671	172,605	+2.4%
93	Dagupan City	Pangasinan	174,777	174,302	+0.3%
94	Baliwag City	Bulacan	174,194	168,470	+3.4%
95	Sariaya	Quezon	172,018	161,868	+6.3%
96	Tuguegarao City	Cagayan	167,297	166,334	+0.6%
97	Ilagan City	Isabela	164,020	158,218	+3.7%
98	Pandi	Bulacan	162,725	155,115	+4.9%
99	Capas	Tarlac	162,724	156,056	+4.3%
100	Cadiz City	Negros Occidental	161,558	158,544	+1.9%

Sources

Every count here is the PSA's own, for the place as the PSA names it today. The change and the order are Scene's arithmetic on those counts. How Scene works out the rest.

1.Philippine Statistics Authority. Population and Annual Population Growth Rate of the Philippines and its Regions, Provinces, and Highly Urbanized Cities Based on the 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024 Population Census (OpenSTAT table 0211A6DAPG0). Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source

Scene works out the rest from these sources: growth rates, shares, areas, densities, coordinates, neighbours and distances. How.

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