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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Rome?

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 Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Rome for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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. Puerto Princesa 58, Rome 50: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Rome 82: Rome leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Rome 99: Rome leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Rome 58: Rome leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Rome 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Rome 92: Rome leads by 80 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Rome 50: Rome leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Rome 60: Rome leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Rome 72: Rome leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Rome 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Rome 68: Rome leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa and Rome are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Rome.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

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

Rome
Best match
64match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaRome
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m21 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaRome
City population316,3842,748,109
People per km²1332,135
Museums within 10 km1178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.