VacationSelector

Maastricht or Manila?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
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?

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Scoreboard

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

MaastrichtManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
MaastrichtManila
Score076
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km63
Coast distance118 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtManila
Score4858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtManila
Score5350
Museums within 10 km2377
Museums within 2 km of centre1323
Share of museums within 2 km %5730
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Manila leads by 31 points.31
MaastrichtManila
Score3061
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8235
Nightclubs within 4 km1336
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtManila
Score3729
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km33 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 14 points.14
MaastrichtManila
Score4660
Tourist attractions within 2 km1537
Park area within 2 km33 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtManila
Score3652
Notable places within 2 km3279
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 32 points.32
MaastrichtManila
Score5890
Price level global79.233.7
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtManila
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Manila
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtManila
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 5 m
€211-222
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 5 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
13 h 20 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

MeasureMaastrichtManila
Official languageDutchEnglish, 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 number112 or 911911
Elevation49 m9 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtManila
City population120,2271,902,590
People per km²2,00076,104
Museums within 10 km2127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3339
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.