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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Cebu or Hobart?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hobart for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Cebu leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Hobart 30: Cebu leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Hobart 38: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Hobart 35: Cebu leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Hobart 40: Cebu leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Hobart.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Hobart
48match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuHobart
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation135 m54 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuHobart
City population965,332197,451
People per km²3,065116
Museums within 10 km58
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.