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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cebu or Montevideo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Cebu leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Montevideo 57: Cebu leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Montevideo 34: Cebu leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Montevideo 36: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Montevideo 42: Cebu leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Montevideo 38: Cebu leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Montevideo.

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 prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuMontevideo
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m41 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuMontevideo
City population965,3321,302,954
People per km²3,0651,785
Museums within 10 km536
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.