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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Athens 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 Athens for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Athens 70, Puerto Princesa 58: Athens leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Puerto Princesa 38: Athens leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Puerto Princesa 22: Athens leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Puerto Princesa 26: Athens leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Puerto Princesa 12: Athens leads by 73 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Puerto Princesa 45: Athens leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Puerto Princesa 30: Athens leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Puerto Princesa 20: Athens leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Puerto Princesa 10: Athens leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Puerto Princesa 40: Athens leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAthensPuerto Princesa
Official languageGreekEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m98 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensPuerto Princesa
City population643,452316,384
People per km²16,499133
Museums within 10 km881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.