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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

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

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • 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. Guilin 8, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Puerto Princesa 38: Guilin leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Puerto Princesa 22: Guilin leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Puerto Princesa 26: Guilin leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Puerto Princesa 80: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Puerto Princesa 12: Guilin leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Guilin and Puerto Princesa are level on 45.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Puerto Princesa 30: Guilin leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Puerto Princesa 20: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Guilin and Puerto Princesa are level on 78.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Puerto Princesa 10: Guilin leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 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: Guilin and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Guilin
Best match
44match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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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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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureGuilinPuerto Princesa
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation153 m98 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinPuerto Princesa
City population4,931,137316,384
People per km²-133
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.