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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Cebu or Kotor?

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
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Kotor for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Cebu leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Kotor 37: Cebu leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Kotor 30: Cebu leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Kotor 36: Cebu leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Kotor 20: Cebu leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Kotor 57: Cebu leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Kotor 20: Cebu leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Kotor 24: Cebu leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Kotor.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuKotor
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishMontenegrin
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m10 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCebuKotor
City population965,332562
People per km²3,065-
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.