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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • wellness

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. Catania 72, Puerto Princesa 58: Catania leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Puerto Princesa 38: Catania leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Puerto Princesa 22: Catania leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Puerto Princesa 26: Catania leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Puerto Princesa 80: Catania leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Puerto Princesa 12: Catania leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Puerto Princesa 45: Catania leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Puerto Princesa 30: Catania leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Puerto Princesa 20: Catania leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Puerto Princesa 10: Catania leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 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: Catania and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCataniaPuerto Princesa
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
Elevation7 m98 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaPuerto Princesa
City population311,584316,384
People per km²1,704133
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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.