VacationSelector

Manila or Munich?

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

Your match

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

ManilaMunich
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaMunich
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km36
Coast distance2 km579 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 15 points.15
ManilaMunich
Score5873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0151,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1735
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 11 points.11
ManilaMunich
Score5061
Museums within 10 km7774
Museums within 2 km of centre2348
Share of museums within 2 km %3065
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 6 points.6
ManilaMunich
Score6167
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0821,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3557
Nightclubs within 4 km36103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 19 points.19
ManilaMunich
Score2948
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 19 points.19
ManilaMunich
Score6079
Tourist attractions within 2 km3780
Park area within 2 km54 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 16 points.16
ManilaMunich
Score5268
Notable places within 2 km79196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 30 points.30
ManilaMunich
Score9060
Price level global33.775.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Manila leads by 5 points.5
ManilaMunich
Score6156
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months40
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
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaMunich
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureManilaMunich
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishGerman
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m519 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMunich
City population1,902,5901,510,378
People per km²76,1044,861
Museums within 10 km2774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3989
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.