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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Cebu or Florence?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Cebu leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Florence 74: Florence leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Florence 94: Florence leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Florence 42: Cebu leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Florence 58: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Florence 98: Florence leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Cebu and Florence are level on 45.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Florence 78: Florence leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Florence 72: Florence leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Florence 35: Cebu leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Florence 58: Florence leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Florence 42: Cebu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Florence.

Your match

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

Cebu
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuFlorence
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m50 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuFlorence
City population965,332360,930
People per km²3,0653,528
Museums within 10 km5141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.