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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lucerne by ILOVESwitzerland, Pexels License.

Cebu or Lucerne?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Lucerne for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Lucerne’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, Lucerne 35: Cebu leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Lucerne 35: Cebu leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Lucerne 58: Lucerne leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Lucerne 28: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Lucerne 92: Lucerne leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Lucerne 78: Lucerne leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Lucerne 66: Lucerne leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Lucerne 86: Lucerne leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Lucerne 46: Lucerne leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Lucerne 8: Cebu leads by 72 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Lucerne 66: Lucerne leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Lucerne 46: Cebu leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Lucerne.

Your match

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

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Lucerne
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around 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

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuLucerne
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m436 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuLucerne
City population965,33286,234
People per km²3,0652,963
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.