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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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. Interlaken 30, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Puerto Princesa 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Puerto Princesa 22: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Puerto Princesa 26: Puerto Princesa leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Puerto Princesa 80: Interlaken leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Puerto Princesa 12: Interlaken leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Puerto Princesa 45: Interlaken leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Puerto Princesa 30: Interlaken leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Puerto Princesa 20: Interlaken leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Puerto Princesa 10: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 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: Interlaken and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Interlaken
Best match
41match

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.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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

Interlaken 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.

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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenPuerto 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
Elevation571 m98 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 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

MeasureInterlakenPuerto Princesa
City population6,123316,384
People per km²1,424133
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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.