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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Steamboat Springs?

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 Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Puerto Princesa leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Steamboat Springs 30: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Steamboat Springs 14: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Steamboat Springs 20: Puerto Princesa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa and Steamboat Springs are level on 12.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Steamboat Springs 22: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Steamboat Springs 17: Puerto Princesa leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa 40, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Steamboat Springs.

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.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 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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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.

Steamboat 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.

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. Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSteamboat Springs
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 m2,052 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaSteamboat Springs
City population316,38413,224
People per km²133503
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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.