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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or Vancouver?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Vancouver 42: Cebu leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Vancouver 45: Vancouver leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Vancouver 27: Cebu leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu and Vancouver are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuVancouver

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuVancouver
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, English
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m2 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuVancouver
City population965,332662,248
People per km²3,0655,759
Museums within 10 km526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.