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Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Maastricht 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 Maastricht for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • 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. Maastricht 8, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Maastricht 58, Puerto Princesa 38: Maastricht leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Maastricht 60, Puerto Princesa 22: Maastricht leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Maastricht 42, Puerto Princesa 26: Maastricht leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Maastricht 58, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Maastricht 77, Puerto Princesa 12: Maastricht leads by 65 points.
Good for families. Maastricht 55, Puerto Princesa 45: Maastricht leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Maastricht 74, Puerto Princesa 30: Maastricht leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Maastricht 60, Puerto Princesa 20: Maastricht leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Maastricht 38, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Maastricht 40, Puerto Princesa 10: Maastricht leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Maastricht 52, Puerto Princesa 40: Maastricht leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Maastricht and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Maastricht
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMaastrichtPuerto Princesa
Official languageDutchEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation49 m98 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 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

MeasureMaastrichtPuerto Princesa
City population120,227316,384
People per km²2,000133
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
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). 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. 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.