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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu or West Palm Beach?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, West Palm Beach 52: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, West Palm Beach 36: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, West Palm Beach 58: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, West Palm Beach 38: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, West Palm Beach 23: Cebu leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, West Palm Beach 44: Cebu leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and West Palm Beach.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CebuWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuWest Palm Beach
City population965,332117,415
People per km²3,065786
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.