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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Amman or Cebu?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Cebu for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Cebu 58: Amman leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Cebu 40: Amman leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Cebu 46: Cebu leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Cebu 44: Amman leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Cebu 45: Cebu leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Cebu 26: Amman leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Cebu 44: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Cebu 25: Amman leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Cebu 50: Amman leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Cebu.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanCebu
Official languageArabicEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m135 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanCebu
City population4,007,526965,332
People per km²2,3853,065
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.