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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Puerto Princesa?

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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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. Antwerp 15, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Puerto Princesa 38: Antwerp leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Puerto Princesa 22: Antwerp leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Puerto Princesa 26: Antwerp leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Puerto Princesa 12: Antwerp leads by 74 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Antwerp leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Puerto Princesa 30: Antwerp leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Puerto Princesa 20: Antwerp leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Puerto Princesa 10: Antwerp leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpPuerto Princesa
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m98 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpPuerto Princesa
City population529,247316,384
People per km²2,542133
Museums within 10 km381
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.