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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agra 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 Agra for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Agra 3, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 89 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, El Nido 27: Agra leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, El Nido 4: Agra leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, El Nido 30: El Nido leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 57 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, El Nido 8: Agra leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, El Nido 40: El Nido leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, El Nido 22: Agra leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, El Nido 7: Agra leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, El Nido 64: Agra leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, El Nido 7: Agra leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and El Nido.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches 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.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

El Nido in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
368 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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.

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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAgraEl Nido
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+8
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation171 m35 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraEl Nido
City population1,585,70551,367
People per km²8,41756
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.