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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Victoria Falls?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Puerto Princesa leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Victoria Falls 24: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Victoria Falls 12: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Victoria Falls 8: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Victoria Falls 22: Victoria Falls leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Victoria Falls 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Victoria Falls 18: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Victoria Falls 32: Puerto Princesa leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa and Victoria Falls are level on 10.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa 40, Victoria Falls 34: Puerto Princesa leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
Best match
38match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on getting around 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto PrincesaVictoria Falls

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. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaVictoria Falls
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation98 m961 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaVictoria Falls
City population316,38433,060
People per km²133-
Museums within 10 km12
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.