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Buenos Aires or Manila?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

Buenos AiresManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 43 points.43
Buenos AiresManila
Score3376
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresManila
Score6758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresManila
Score6650
Museums within 10 km14877
Museums within 2 km of centre7123
Share of museums within 2 km %4830
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresManila
Score6861
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6035
Nightclubs within 4 km16036
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresManila
Score4329
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6778
Park area within 2 km69 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresManila
Score6960
Tourist attractions within 2 km4937
Park area within 2 km69 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km63
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresManila
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresManila
Score8290
Price level global45.833.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresManila
Score7561
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresManila
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
16 h 15 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

MeasureBuenos AiresManila
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m9 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresManila
City population3,121,7071,902,590
People per km²15,35576,104
Museums within 10 km7527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5539
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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). 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.