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Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Princesa or Virginia Beach?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • day trips
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Princesa 38, Virginia Beach 42: Virginia Beach leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Princesa 22, Virginia Beach 30: Virginia Beach leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Princesa 26, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Princesa 80, Virginia Beach 56: Puerto Princesa leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Puerto Princesa 12, Virginia Beach 64: Virginia Beach leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Puerto Princesa 45, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Puerto Princesa 30, Virginia Beach 27: Puerto Princesa leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Princesa 20, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Puerto Princesa 78, Virginia Beach 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Princesa 10, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Princesa 40, Virginia Beach 32: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Princesa and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Puerto Princesa
38match

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

Virginia Beach
Best match
46match

Wins on day trips and families 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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 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. Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PrincesaVirginia Beach
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation98 m7 m
Main airportPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PrincesaVirginia Beach
City population316,384459,470
People per km²133-
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.