VacationSelector

Interlaken or Manila?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

InterlakenManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
InterlakenManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance713 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 29 points.29
InterlakenManila
Score2958
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1717
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 27 points.27
InterlakenManila
Score2350
Museums within 10 km577
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %4030
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manila leads by 57 points.57
InterlakenManila
Score461
Drinking venues within 4 km421,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9035
Nightclubs within 4 km336
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 2 points.2
InterlakenManila
Score2729
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km5 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenManila
Score1460
Tourist attractions within 2 km1137
Park area within 2 km5 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 30 points.30
InterlakenManila
Score2252
Notable places within 2 km1479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 55 points.55
InterlakenManila
Score3590
Price level global110.533.7
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 4 points.4
InterlakenManila
Score5761
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months34
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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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenManila
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenManila
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m9 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenManila
City population6,1231,902,590
People per km²1,42476,104
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2239
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.