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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or Newport Beach?

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
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Newport Beach 50: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Newport Beach 20: Cebu leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Newport Beach 33: Cebu leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Newport Beach 20: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Newport Beach 15: Cebu leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Newport Beach 44: Cebu leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Newport Beach.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on families and day trips 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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuNewport Beach
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m3 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuNewport Beach
City population965,33285,239
People per km²3,065622
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.