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Philippines

62 cities in the atlas · 39 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Patrick Roque · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Manila
Currency: PHP; Philippine Peso
Local time: Philippine Standard TimeUTC+08:00
Calling code: +63
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A, B and C

Facts

Philippines in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Manila
Currency: Philippine Peso PHPToday's indicative rate: PHP 10 ≈ USD 0.159Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: English and FilipinoOfficial in part of the country: Cebuano, Iloko, Hiligaynon, Waray and PangasinanSpoken: Filipino, English, Cebuano, Iloko and Hiligaynon
Time zones: Philippine Standard TimeUTC+08:00
Calling code: +63
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A, B and C220 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 116,786,962 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 300,000 km²
Internet domain: .ph
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Philippines

In January to March, more than half of the 34 cities with figures in Philippines have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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Cool
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Manila	27°	28°	30°	32°	32°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	27°
Quezon City	27°	28°	30°	32°	32°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	27°
Cebu City	28°	28°	29°	31°	31°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°
Davao	29°	30°	30°	31°	31°	30°	30°	30°	30°	30°	30°	30°
Zamboanga	28°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°	29°	29°
Caloocan	27°	28°	30°	32°	32°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	27°
Bacolod City	27°	28°	30°	32°	31°	28°	27°	27°	27°	27°	27°	27°
Iloilo	28°	29°	30°	32°	31°	29°	28°	28°	28°	29°	29°	28°
Cagayan de Oro	28°	29°	30°	31°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	29°	29°	29°
City of Taguig	27°	28°	30°	32°	32°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	27°
Cities good for going, of 34	28	32	31	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	9

Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Philippines is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Philippines

All 62 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

More cities · 4

Smaller places with an airport · 28

Airports

Airports in Philippines

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 24

Photographs

Philippines in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Manila
Intramuros · Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Philippines

Tell us where in Philippines, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.