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Baden-Baden or Manila?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
Manila

Photo: Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Manila
48
match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 4 points.4
Food & drink. Manila leads by 19 points.19
Culture & sights. Manila leads by 2 points.2
Nightlife. Manila leads by 49 points.49
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden leads by 30 points.30
Day trips. Baden-Baden leads by 36 points.36
Good for families. Baden-Baden leads by 8 points.8
Getting around. Baden-Baden leads by 36 points.36
Shopping & style. Manila leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Manila leads by 47 points.47
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden leads by 8 points.8
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 56 points.56
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Manila.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenManila
Daytime high25 °C32 °C
Night-time low14 °C25 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm487 mm
Sunshine8 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight16 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenManila
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 5 m
€693-750
3 stops
FRA · 143 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
HanoiHAN
10 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
2 h 45 m
€182-214
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 72 km
13 h 20 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

MeasureBaden-BadenManila
Official languageGermanEnglish, 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
Elevation181 m9 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenManila
City population56,9521,902,590
People per km²40676,104
Museums within 10 km1127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.