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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Avignon 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 Avignon for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Avignon’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. Avignon 22, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, El Nido 27: Avignon leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, El Nido 4: Avignon leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Avignon and El Nido are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, El Nido 8: Avignon leads by 84 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, El Nido 40: Avignon leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, El Nido 22: Avignon leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, El Nido 7: Avignon leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, El Nido 7: Avignon leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and El Nido.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Avignon 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.

Avignon's sunshine is measured 65 km from the centre, at Marseille / Marignane.

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. Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAvignonEl 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
Elevation10 m35 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonEl Nido
City population92,18851,367
People per km²1,42056
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.