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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cologne or Puerto Princesa?

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 Cologne for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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. Cologne 14, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, Puerto Princesa 38: Cologne leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, Puerto Princesa 22: Cologne leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, Puerto Princesa 26: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, Puerto Princesa 12: Cologne leads by 68 points.
Good for families. Cologne 70, Puerto Princesa 45: Cologne leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Cologne 74, Puerto Princesa 30: Cologne leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, Puerto Princesa 20: Cologne leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, Puerto Princesa 10: Cologne leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne 50, Puerto Princesa 40: Cologne leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Cologne
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureColognePuerto Princesa
Official languageGermanEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation59 m98 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureColognePuerto Princesa
City population1,025,523316,384
People per km²2,532133
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.