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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or Siena?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Siena’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, Siena 14: Cebu leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Siena 62: Siena leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Siena 78: Siena leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Siena 27: Cebu leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Siena 65: Siena leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Siena 94: Siena leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Siena 38: Cebu leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Siena 60: Siena leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Siena 35: Cebu leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Siena 42: Cebu leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Siena 36: Siena leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Siena 55: Siena leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Siena.

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.

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Siena's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Arezzo.

Siena 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuSiena
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 m322 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuSiena
City population965,33252,812
People per km²3,065446
Museums within 10 km530
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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.