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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cebu or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Cebu leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Steamboat Springs 30: Cebu leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Steamboat Springs 14: Cebu leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Steamboat Springs 20: Cebu leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Steamboat Springs 12: Cebu leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Steamboat Springs 22: Cebu leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Steamboat Springs 17: Cebu leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Steamboat Springs.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 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

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuSteamboat Springs
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m2,052 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuSteamboat Springs
City population965,33213,224
People per km²3,065503
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.