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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh for

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

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Edinburgh 22, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Puerto Princesa 38: Edinburgh leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Puerto Princesa 22: Edinburgh leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Puerto Princesa 26: Edinburgh leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Puerto Princesa 12: Edinburgh leads by 63 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Puerto Princesa 30: Edinburgh leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Puerto Princesa 20: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Puerto Princesa 10: Edinburgh leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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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EdinburghPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghPuerto Princesa
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation47 m98 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghPuerto Princesa
City population488,050316,384
People per km²1,884133
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.