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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose El Nido for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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. Antibes 80, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, El Nido 27: Antibes leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, El Nido 4: Antibes leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, El Nido 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, El Nido 8: Antibes leads by 80 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, El Nido 40: Antibes leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, El Nido 22: Antibes leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, El Nido 7: Antibes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, El Nido 7: Antibes leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and El Nido.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on prices 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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AntibesEl 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntibesEl Nido
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m35 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesEl Nido
City population77,63751,367
People per km²2,93056
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.