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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or Krabi?

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

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Krabi 50: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Krabi 20: Cebu leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Krabi 33: Cebu leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Krabi 40: Cebu leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Krabi 30: Krabi leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Krabi 20: Cebu leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Krabi 78: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Krabi 12: Cebu leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Krabi.

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 shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuKrabi
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishThai
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Baht (THB)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation135 m16 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCebuKrabi
City population965,33230,499
People per km²3,065-
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.