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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palermo 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 Palermo for

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

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • 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. Palermo 77, Puerto Princesa 58: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Puerto Princesa 38: Palermo leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Puerto Princesa 22: Palermo leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Puerto Princesa 26: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Puerto Princesa 12: Palermo leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Puerto Princesa 45: Puerto Princesa leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Puerto Princesa 30: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Puerto Princesa 20: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Puerto Princesa 10: Palermo leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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. Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalermoPuerto Princesa
Official languageItalianEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m98 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoPuerto Princesa
City population630,167316,384
People per km²3,924133
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.