VacationSelector

Alicante or Manila?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteManila
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteManila
Score7776
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteManila
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3117
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteManila
Score4250
Museums within 10 km1477
Museums within 2 km of centre1123
Share of museums within 2 km %7930
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteManila
Score5161
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8335
Nightclubs within 4 km5436
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteManila
Score4029
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5978
Park area within 2 km60 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteManila
Score4260
Tourist attractions within 2 km1337
Park area within 2 km60 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteManila
Score2652
Notable places within 2 km1879
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteManila
Score7190
Price level global60.833.7
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteManila
Score8761
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months114
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteManila
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m9 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteManila
City population366,2211,902,590
People per km²1,81976,104
Museums within 10 km827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5239
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.