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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

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

Puerto Princesa or Snowbird?

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
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Snowbird for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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, Snowbird 5: Puerto Princesa leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Snowbird 20: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Snowbird 5: Puerto Princesa leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Snowbird 9: Puerto Princesa leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Snowbird 47: Snowbird leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Snowbird 42: Puerto Princesa leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Snowbird 40: Snowbird leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Snowbird 8: Puerto Princesa leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Snowbird 15: Puerto Princesa leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Snowbird 8: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa and Snowbird 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 Snowbird.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
Best match
38match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on day trips 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.

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto PrincesaSnowbird

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.

Snowbird 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. Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSnowbird
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation98 m2,479 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSnowbird
City population316,384-
People per km²133-
Museums within 10 km10
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.