Sun Wukong defenders are some of the worst fictional battle debaters lol, It's like half are trolls.. Few even have Wikipedia level knowledge of either Sun Wukong or PC superman. MASSIVE disservice lmao. Sorry but your kiddie Monkey King adaptations nerfs Sun somewhat because they lack the lots of power quantification available in the multiple volume long original(from the 16th century). And random bits of god powers plucked from made-up mythology without contextualization are just too ridiculous, inconsistent and fan-fic.
Assuming Sun Wukong's mythological feats are irrelevant, PC superman feats >>> Sun Wukong feats. However Sun Wukong has never had any trouble with any power feats throughout his volumes, and based on the ones that can be contextualized I'd say he's around or above this.
Sun Wukong: Normal Thor's strength level, Wonder Women's battle reaction speed, Small star level durability and mysticism abilities of Zatanna.
Explanations:
1. In Chinese myth incorporated into the novel, Earthquakes, falling mountains and other natural disasters were caused by just one or 2 heavenly warriors(each a cosmic embodiment) battling monsters.(China had 2000+ years of recorded devastating calamities by then, and Earth was theorized to have existed much longer) They can't be seen because they move too fast for the mortal eye, basically described as the flashes of light that appear sometimes. Imagine 100,000 of them easily defeated by Sun.
There was also the effortless dual-mountain carrying feats and the toying around with mountain destroying demon lords, all of whom had decent and pretty creative magics and magical items of their own
2: The 108 000 Li(54 000 km, 34 000miles) in one somersault was used by Sun himself to describe his abilities(among the other nice sounding numbers). That was basically the "around the world and beyond" jump(there were estimations of the Earth's circumference by then.) Either way the distance Sun flew while trying to get out of the Buddha's hand was left unstated, generally meant to be a lot. Regardless velocity is going to be a weak point for the Monkey, although as shown in a few instances it was arguable that he has easily accessible teleportation powers.
3: He cooked in Samadhi fires which was supposed to be hotter than the hottest of magical hell/demon fires. It vaporized Sun's heavenly metal armor made for him by the best smiths in the heaven dimension as soon as he entered the chamber(save for one part of the armor he liked and protected for 49 days). He was kept there after all physical, poison and magical means to execute him failed, including one where executioners attempted to rip him apart with the inertia of the Sun and Moon or something. By any case it was implied Sun got himself caught on purpose to detox his fur or for a nice hot sauna(speculation) because he easily defeated(again) the ones who captured him after he let himself out. /End physical abilities.
4: Mystical abilities is a can of worms on another level though. During the JTTW there's are almost countless numbers of little tricks and magical gear he picked up from local pantheons. But his most powerful are his core abilities, including his transformations which overcame any magical and mystical mirror attempts at exposing him, and where his clones were a match for one demon ox king and the heavenly warriors. There's the point and freeze thing, which has worked everytime he used it(but he only ever uses it on below mid-level demons)
5: The pills of "invincibility", very rarely distilled from the Samadhi fires even the Jade Emperor sparingly consumes(Monkey ate the whole batch), the peaches of immortality and "godhood" which bloom once a blue moon(much longer than a human lifetime, I remember thinking), and given only to exceptional mortals(Monkey ate everything save for one basket-full picked by maidens), and the wine.
The ability of Monkey to manipulate the look of the sky and heavens is a little un-quantifiable by today's standards. But a notable instance was when he made a star appear as bright as the sun to scam some demons, which is a nod to certain pretty bright supernovas recorded by Chinese astronomers such as SN 1006, 1054 and 1181.
Basically the draw of the classic was more of its literary, side characters, fantastical universe and zen-pacifist Buddhist master-student dynamics than something like DBZ where Goku underwent massive power up after power ups. Because Sun Wukong could take on his entire verse besides its creator(the Buddha) if he wanted to. Because he's the OG for trickster OP author-wanked protagonists. Probably why so many half-troll defenders who don't even remember or actually read the original(like me as well).
But PC superman will still >>>> anything a pre-industrialization writer can materialize into a proper novel. Except maybe the Buddha in this case, who created the Heaven, hell, demon and Earth dimensions and trapped this very powerful Monkey under an invulnerable materialization of his hand with a very powerful magical seal(the Five Finger Mountain 五指山). Also there's the hand which was seemingly just a few meters across, which the Monkey couldn't fly out of.
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