VacationSelector

Berlin or Manila?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manila
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

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

BerlinManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
BerlinManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance142 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinManila
Score7058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3317
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BerlinManila
Score7950
Museums within 10 km20077
Museums within 2 km of centre8123
Share of museums within 2 km %4130
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 15 points.15
BerlinManila
Score7661
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3435
Nightclubs within 4 km13536
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinManila
Score4929
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km141 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 16 points.16
BerlinManila
Score7660
Tourist attractions within 2 km5437
Park area within 2 km141 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BerlinManila
Score8452
Notable places within 2 km48679
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 30 points.30
BerlinManila
Score6090
Price level global75.933.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 1 points.1
BerlinManila
Score6061
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months34
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinManila
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
Elevation34 m9 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinManila
City population3,782,2021,902,590
People per km²4,24476,104
Museums within 10 km15827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8639
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.