VacationSelector

Antwerp or Manila?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
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.

AntwerpManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
AntwerpManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance21 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpManila
Score7558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4217
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpManila
Score6950
Museums within 10 km4177
Museums within 2 km of centre2723
Share of museums within 2 km %6630
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Manila leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpManila
Score5961
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7635
Nightclubs within 4 km7336
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpManila
Score3429
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8078
Park area within 2 km53 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpManila
Score4660
Tourist attractions within 2 km1437
Park area within 2 km53 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpManila
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8879
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 30 points.30
AntwerpManila
Score6090
Price level global76.233.7
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpManila
Score5861
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
12 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
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 2026-08 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

MeasureAntwerpManila
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m9 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpManila
City population529,2471,902,590
People per km²2,54276,104
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8039
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.