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Palm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms, Palm Springs
Palm SpringsPalm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Palm Springs by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Palm Springs 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 Springs for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • getting around

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 Springs 7, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Puerto Princesa 38: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Puerto Princesa 22: Palm Springs leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Puerto Princesa 26: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Puerto Princesa 12: Palm Springs leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Puerto Princesa 45: Puerto Princesa leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Puerto Princesa 30: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Puerto Princesa 20: Palm Springs leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Puerto Princesa 10: Palm Springs leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Puerto Princesa 40: Palm Springs leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
Best match
42match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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.

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation146 m98 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 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

MeasurePalm SpringsPuerto Princesa
City population44,575316,384
People per km²181133
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.