VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Manila?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

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

Manila
60
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

CopenhagenManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenManila
Score5476
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenManila
Score7358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3717
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenManila
Score7550
Museums within 10 km8377
Museums within 2 km of centre5123
Share of museums within 2 km %6130
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenManila
Score6761
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5835
Nightclubs within 4 km6436
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenManila
Score5029
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3978
Park area within 2 km138 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenManila
Score7160
Tourist attractions within 2 km5437
Park area within 2 km138 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenManila
Score7452
Notable places within 2 km27379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 38 points.38
CopenhagenManila
Score5290
Price level global87.833.7
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenManila
Score5561
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenManila
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
11 h 35 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€142-175
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 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

MeasureCopenhagenManila
Official languageDanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m9 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenManila
City population667,0991,902,590
People per km²7,33976,104
Museums within 10 km7227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8239
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.