VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Manila?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manila
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 36 points.36
AmsterdamManila
Score4076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance24 km2 km
Water distance24 km2 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 25 points.25
AmsterdamManila
Score8358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9571,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4417
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 30 points.30
AmsterdamManila
Score8050
Museums within 10 km9877
Museums within 2 km of centre6923
Share of museums within 2 km %7030
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamManila
Score7061
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7035
Nightclubs within 4 km11436
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamManila
Score6029
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8278
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 8 points.8
AmsterdamManila
Score6860
Tourist attractions within 2 km7437
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamManila
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19679
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 32 points.32
AmsterdamManila
Score5890
Price level global79.233.7
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamManila
Score5761
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months04
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
12 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
16 h 45 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

MeasureAmsterdamManila
Official languageDutchEnglish, 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 number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m9 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamManila
City population921,4681,902,590
People per km²4,20876,104
Museums within 10 km10127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.