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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Cebu or Cork?

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 Cebu for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Cork for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Cebu 60, Cork 25: Cebu leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Cebu and Cork are level on 58.
Culture & sights. Cebu and Cork are level on 40.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Cork 40: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Cork 62: Cork leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Cork 68: Cork leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Cork 50: Cork leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Cork 58: Cork leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Cork 40: Cebu leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Cork 33: Cebu leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Cork 45: Cork leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Cork 22: Cebu leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Cork.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuCork
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m0 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuCork
City population965,332222,333
People per km²3,0655,961
Museums within 10 km55
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.