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The Jet d'Eau and a lake boat, Geneva
GenevaThe Jet d'Eau and a lake boat
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Geneva by Diviosen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Geneva 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 Geneva for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches

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. Geneva 45, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Geneva 55, Puerto Princesa 38: Geneva leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Geneva 58, Puerto Princesa 22: Geneva leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Geneva 38, Puerto Princesa 26: Geneva leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Geneva 82, Puerto Princesa 80: Geneva leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Geneva 80, Puerto Princesa 12: Geneva leads by 68 points.
Good for families. Geneva 57, Puerto Princesa 45: Geneva leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Geneva 86, Puerto Princesa 30: Geneva leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Geneva 68, Puerto Princesa 20: Geneva leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Geneva 5, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 73 points.
Live music & performing arts. Geneva 60, Puerto Princesa 10: Geneva leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Geneva 55, Puerto Princesa 40: Geneva leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Geneva and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Geneva
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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.

Geneva in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureGenevaPuerto Princesa
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m98 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPuerto Princesa
City population211,152316,384
People per km²13,280133
Museums within 10 km341
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.