VacationSelector

Dresden or Manila?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manila
✓ Best match
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.

DresdenManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
DresdenManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km223
Coast distance267 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenManila
Score6158
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4217
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenManila
Score5450
Museums within 10 km6677
Museums within 2 km of centre3423
Share of museums within 2 km %5230
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 19 points.19
DresdenManila
Score4261
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7435
Nightclubs within 4 km4336
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenManila
Score3929
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km80 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 1 points.1
DresdenManila
Score5960
Tourist attractions within 2 km3237
Park area within 2 km80 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenManila
Score5352
Notable places within 2 km8279
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 30 points.30
DresdenManila
Score6090
Price level global75.933.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenManila
Score6261
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months44
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenManila
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 50 m
€435-460
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 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

MeasureDresdenManila
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
Elevation126 m9 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenManila
City population564,9041,902,590
People per km²1,72076,104
Museums within 10 km7027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7739
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.