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We pulled the published rate from every court in our directory that has one. 597 venues, two different pricing units, and a PHP 250 gap between the cheapest and dearest major city. Here is what the numbers say.
PHP 150
median across 45 venues quoting a per-player fee. Middle half falls between PHP 100 and PHP 200; the highest we found was PHP 300.
PHP 300
median across 234 venues quoting an hourly court rate. Middle half falls between PHP 200 and PHP 400; the highest was PHP 750.
Those two numbers answer most of the question, and confusing them is the most expensive mistake a new player makes here. A venue quoting "PHP 300" may mean PHP 300 for you or PHP 300 for the court. For a group of four, that is a PHP 900 difference on a single session. Always ask which unit applies before you agree to anything.
Cities with at least five venues publishing a rate. The median is the middle published figure in that city across both pricing units, so read it as the price level of the local market rather than a per-player fee.
| City | Median | Range | Venues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manila | PHP 200 | PHP 20 to PHP 500 | 42 |
| Cebu City | PHP 400 | PHP 200 to PHP 700 | 34 |
| Davao City | PHP 300 | PHP 20 to PHP 1000 | 17 |
| Mandaue | PHP 450 | PHP 150 to PHP 750 | 15 |
| Dumaguete | PHP 325 | PHP 20 to PHP 450 | 10 |
| Lapu-Lapu | PHP 400 | PHP 100 to PHP 700 | 7 |
| Cagayan de Oro | PHP 250 | PHP 25 to PHP 400 | 6 |
| Bacolod | PHP 400 | PHP 125 to PHP 400 | 5 |
The Cebu cluster is the country's most expensive place to play. Mandaue at a PHP 450 median and Cebu City at PHP 400 both sit well above Metro Manila's PHP 200, which surprises people who assume the capital is dearest. The reason is court type: Cebu and Mandaue built a high proportion of purpose-built indoor venues, while Metro Manila still has a deep stock of shared halls and public courts holding the low end down. Cagayan de Oro at PHP 250 and Davao City at PHP 300 sit in between.
Look at the ranges rather than the medians if you are price-sensitive. Manila spans PHP 20 to PHP 500 and Davao City PHP 20 to PHP 1,000, meaning both cities contain genuinely cheap and genuinely premium options. A city median tells you what to expect; the range tells you what is available if you look.
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Indoor versus outdoor, more than anything else. A covered, air-conditioned court carries rent, power, and maintenance that a painted outdoor slab does not. Almost every venue at the PHP 500-plus end of our data is indoor, and almost every free one is outdoor.
Time of day. Weekday evenings after 6 PM and weekend mornings are peak everywhere, because that is when people who work can play. Where a venue runs peak pricing, the off-peak rate is often a third lower for exactly the same court.
Whether it is a pickleball venue or a hall with lines on it. Purpose-built venues charge more and generally deliver more: correct net height, proper court dimensions, no sharing with a basketball game. Converted badminton halls and barangay courts sit at the bottom of the range and are where most Filipino players learned.
Group size, which is the one you control. The court rate does not change with the number of players on it. Four players on a PHP 300 court pay PHP 75 each. Two pay PHP 150. Nothing else on this list is worth as much to your budget as turning up with a full four.
127 venues in our directory charge nothing to play. They are overwhelmingly barangay covered courts and LGU sports complexes where someone painted or taped pickleball lines onto an existing multi-purpose court. This is not a marginal category. It is a substantial share of every court in the country and the main reason the sport reached the provinces as quickly as it did.
What you trade away is predictability. You cannot reserve a free court, you may be sharing the floor with basketball, and the net is often whatever the local group leaves behind, which may be a badminton net at nearly twice the correct height. Turn up, ask who is organising, and expect the session to run on local goodwill rather than a schedule.
If you are starting out and unsure whether the sport will stick, a free court plus a borrowed paddle is the sensible first month. Our gear checklist covers what you genuinely need before spending anything.
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Two sessions a week, using the medians above, before equipment.
| How you play | Per session | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Free barangay or LGU court | PHP 0 | PHP 0 |
| Court hire, split four ways | PHP 75 | PHP 600 |
| Open play, per player | PHP 150 | PHP 1,200 |
| Premium indoor court, split four ways | PHP 188 | PHP 1,500 |
On top of that, one-off and occasional costs. A usable starter paddle runs PHP 1,500 to PHP 3,000, and our beginner paddle guide covers what that money should buy. Outdoor balls crack after two to five sessions in Philippine heat, so budget roughly one ball per few sessions if you play outdoors. Paddle rental, where offered at all, is PHP 50 to PHP 200 a session. Coaching, where a venue offers it, is commonly PHP 1,000 to PHP 1,500 an hour.
The headline: playing twice a week is realistically a PHP 600 to PHP 1,200 monthly habit for most people, which is materially cheaper than tennis or indoor badminton in the same cities. If you want the number at the bottom of that band, find three regular partners and play weekday mornings.
PickleBoard tracks 2,591 active pickleball venues in the Philippines. In August 2026, 597 of them published a usable rate. We parsed each one, separated per-player fees from hourly court rates, and took medians and quartiles for each. Figures on this page are those results. Cities appear in the table only where at least five venues publish a rate.
Two limits worth stating plainly. First, this is a sample of what venues choose to publish, so it likely under-represents both the free community courts that never post a rate and the premium venues that quote on enquiry. Second, published rates are usually off-peak, so treat the medians as a floor for evening and weekend play rather than an average.
Individual court pages carry the venue's own rate where we have it, and tell you to confirm where we do not. We do not invent a figure for a venue that has never published one.
Two answers, because there are two products. Joining an open-play session costs a median of PHP 150 per player, most commonly PHP 100 to PHP 200. Hiring a whole court for your own group costs a median of PHP 300 an hour, most commonly PHP 200 to PHP 400. Both figures come from the 597 courts on PickleBoard that publish a rate, measured in August 2026.
Kung sasali ka lang sa open play, karaniwang PHP 100 hanggang PHP 200 kada player, at PHP 150 ang median. Kung buong court ang irerenta mo para sa grupo mo, PHP 200 hanggang PHP 400 kada oras, at PHP 300 ang median. May 127 na venue din sa listahan namin na libre, kadalasan barangay o LGU covered courts.
Free barangay and LGU covered courts, of which we list 127. Among paying venues, Manila has the lowest median at PHP 200, followed by Cagayan de Oro at PHP 250, while Mandaue at PHP 450 and Cebu City at PHP 400 are the most expensive. Within any single city the cheapest option is almost always a weekday morning slot on an outdoor court.
Court supply and court type. Cebu and Mandaue built a high share of purpose-built indoor pickleball venues, which cost more to run and price accordingly, while Metro Manila has a larger stock of shared halls and public courts at the low end pulling the median down. The comparison is between medians of what venues publish, so it reflects what is on offer rather than what any individual court charges.
At the PHP 150 median open-play fee, twice a week is about PHP 1,200 a month. Hiring a court at PHP 300 an hour and splitting it four ways is PHP 75 each, or roughly PHP 600 a month for the same frequency. Add a starter paddle at PHP 1,500 to PHP 3,000 once, and a ball every few sessions on outdoor courts.
Commonly, yes, and the published number is usually the off-peak one. Weekday evenings after 6 PM and weekend slots are the peak blocks at almost every private venue. If a rate matters to your plans, confirm which time band it applies to rather than assuming the posted figure is flat.
Rarely. Where a venue rents paddles at all, expect PHP 50 to PHP 200 per paddle on top of the court or open-play fee. Many venues offer no rental, which is worth checking before bringing someone who does not own a paddle.
Because most venues have never published one. Only 597 of 2,591 active courts state a rate anywhere we can find it. A large share are shared or community facilities with no fixed commercial rate, and others simply quote on enquiry. This is why every court page here points you at the venue to confirm rather than inventing a number.
Every listed venue shows its published rate, address, and contact details. Once you know what you want to pay, the next question is how to book it.