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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cebu for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Bologna 30, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Cebu 58: Bologna leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Cebu 40: Bologna leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Cebu 46: Bologna leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Cebu 44: Bologna leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Cebu 45: Bologna leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Cebu 26: Bologna leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Cebu 44: Bologna leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Cebu 25: Bologna leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Cebu 50: Cebu leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Cebu.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices 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.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaCebu
Official languageItalianEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m135 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaCebu
City population387,971965,332
People per km²2,7543,065
Museums within 10 km685
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.