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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Atlanta 10, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, El Nido 27: Atlanta leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, El Nido 4: Atlanta leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, El Nido 30: Atlanta leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, El Nido 8: Atlanta leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, El Nido 40: Atlanta leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, El Nido 22: Atlanta leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, El Nido 7: Atlanta leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, El Nido 7: Atlanta leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and El Nido.

Your match

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

Atlanta
Best match
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 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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AtlantaEl Nido

Where the figures come from

Atlanta 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaEl Nido
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m35 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaEl Nido
City population498,71551,367
People per km²1,43356
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.