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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Skopje?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Skopje for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’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, Skopje 6: Puerto Princesa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Skopje 70: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Skopje 35: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Skopje 80: Skopje leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa 40, Skopje 27: Puerto Princesa leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Skopje.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Skopje
Best match
46match

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

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Skopje 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.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

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. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSkopje
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Denar (MKD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m251 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSkopje
City population316,384422,540
People per km²133739
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.