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The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • 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. Fort Lauderdale 88, Puerto Princesa 58: Fort Lauderdale leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Fort Lauderdale 47, Puerto Princesa 38: Fort Lauderdale leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Lauderdale 28, Puerto Princesa 22: Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale 52, Puerto Princesa 26: Fort Lauderdale leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Lauderdale 62, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Fort Lauderdale 58, Puerto Princesa 12: Fort Lauderdale leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale 66, Puerto Princesa 45: Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Fort Lauderdale 32, Puerto Princesa 30: Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Lauderdale 52, Puerto Princesa 20: Fort Lauderdale leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Fort Lauderdale 32, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Lauderdale 42, Puerto Princesa 10: Fort Lauderdale leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Lauderdale and Puerto Princesa are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Lauderdale and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Fort Lauderdale
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices 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.

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort LauderdalePuerto Princesa

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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFort LauderdalePuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m98 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre138 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

MeasureFort LauderdalePuerto Princesa
City population182,760316,384
People per km²1,829133
Museums within 10 km61
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. 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.