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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Cebu for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Atlanta 10, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Cebu 58: Atlanta leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Cebu 40: Atlanta leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Cebu 46: Atlanta leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta and Cebu are level on 60.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Cebu 44: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Cebu 45: Atlanta leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Cebu 26: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Cebu 44: Atlanta leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Cebu 25: Atlanta leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Cebu 50: Cebu leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Cebu.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Atlanta
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Cebu
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.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
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

Atlanta 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaCebu
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m135 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCebu
City population498,715965,332
People per km²1,4333,065
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.