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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Cebu or Havana?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Havana leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Havana 40: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Havana 77: Havana leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Havana 60: Havana leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Havana 34: Cebu leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Havana 38: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Havana 34: Cebu leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Havana 38: Havana leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Havana 30: Cebu leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Havana 58: Cebu leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Havana 74: Havana leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Havana 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 Havana.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cebu
48match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 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

Havana 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. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuHavana
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation135 m59 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuHavana
City population965,3322,492,618
People per km²3,0653,423
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.