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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or El Nido?

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 Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on El Nido’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. Adelaide 68, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, El Nido 27: Adelaide leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, El Nido 4: Adelaide leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, El Nido 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, El Nido 8: Adelaide leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, El Nido 40: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, El Nido 22: Adelaide leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, El Nido 7: Adelaide leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, El Nido 7: Adelaide leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and El Nido.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

El Nido in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
368 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideEl Nido

Where the figures come from

El Nido 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. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideEl Nido
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m35 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideEl Nido
City population1,387,29051,367
People per km²1,07156
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.