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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Santiago de Compostela?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Puerto Princesa leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Santiago de Compostela 62: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Santiago de Compostela 42: Puerto Princesa leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Santiago de Compostela 35: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Santiago de Compostela 64: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa 40, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

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

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °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.

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. Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishSpanish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m260 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSantiago de Compostela
City population316,384100,965
People per km²133459
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.