VacationSelector

Manila or Plovdiv?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

ManilaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaPlovdiv
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance2 km130 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 12 points.12
ManilaPlovdiv
Score5846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1719
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 12 points.12
ManilaPlovdiv
Score5038
Museums within 10 km7726
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %30100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Manila leads by 19 points.19
ManilaPlovdiv
Score6142
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3573
Nightclubs within 4 km3626
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 8 points.8
ManilaPlovdiv
Score2937
Protected land share 50 km %45
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 29 points.29
ManilaPlovdiv
Score6031
Tourist attractions within 2 km375
Park area within 2 km54 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 11 points.11
ManilaPlovdiv
Score5241
Notable places within 2 km7941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 9 points.9
ManilaPlovdiv
Score9099
Price level global33.721.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 4 points.4
ManilaPlovdiv
Score6165
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months42
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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaPlovdiv
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 25 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 45 m
€428-448
MNL · 11 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 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

MeasureManilaPlovdiv
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishBulgarian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m172 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaPlovdiv
City population1,902,590333,994
People per km²76,1043,274
Museums within 10 km2718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3936
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.