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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cebu or Santiago de Compostela?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Cebu leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Santiago de Compostela 45: Cebu leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Santiago de Compostela 62: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Santiago de Compostela 42: Cebu leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Santiago de Compostela 35: Cebu leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Santiago de Compostela 64: Cebu leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Santiago de Compostela 42: Cebu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Cebu
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuSantiago de Compostela

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m260 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuSantiago de Compostela
City population965,332100,965
People per km²3,065459
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.