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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • 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. Palm Beach 82, Puerto Princesa 58: Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Puerto Princesa 38: Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Puerto Princesa 22: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Puerto Princesa 26: Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Puerto Princesa 12: Palm Beach leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Puerto Princesa 30: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Puerto Princesa 20: Palm Beach leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Puerto Princesa 10: Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Puerto Princesa 40: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m98 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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

MeasurePalm BeachPuerto Princesa
City population9,245316,384
People per km²322133
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.