VacationSelector

Belgrade or Manila?

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

Your match

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BelgradeManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
BelgradeManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance292 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeManila
Score6358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2917
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeManila
Score5350
Museums within 10 km6777
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %7030
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeManila
Score6561
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7235
Nightclubs within 4 km13036
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeManila
Score3829
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km147 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeManila
Score5160
Tourist attractions within 2 km1437
Park area within 2 km147 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeManila
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeManila
Score8590
Price level global41.733.7
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeManila
Score6561
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeManila
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
4 h 50 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
GuangzhouCAN
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€205-230
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
5 h 10 m
€418-522
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBelgradeManila
Official languageSerbianEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m9 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeManila
City population1,197,7141,902,590
People per km²3,32776,104
Museums within 10 km6527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6239
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.