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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cebu or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Cebu leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: Cebu leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on beaches and families 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuSt. Petersburg, Florida

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m134 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population965,332258,308
People per km²3,065725
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.