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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or Positano?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Positano for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’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, Positano 77: Positano leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Positano 40: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Positano 22: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Positano 22: Cebu leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Positano 80: Positano leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Positano 88: Positano leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Positano 28: Cebu leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Positano 35: Positano leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Positano 45: Positano leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Positano 10: Cebu leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Positano 15: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Positano 45: Cebu leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Positano.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Positano
42match

Wins on day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 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

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuPositano
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m142 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuPositano
City population965,3323,729
People per km²3,065429
Museums within 10 km510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.