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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

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

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Lisbon 50, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Puerto Princesa 38: Lisbon leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Puerto Princesa 22: Lisbon leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Puerto Princesa 26: Lisbon leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Puerto Princesa 12: Lisbon leads by 70 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Puerto Princesa 30: Lisbon leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Puerto Princesa 20: Lisbon leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Puerto Princesa 10: Lisbon leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLisbonPuerto Princesa
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m98 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonPuerto Princesa
City population545,796316,384
People per km²5,453133
Museums within 10 km801
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.