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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baku 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 Baku for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose El Nido for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • 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. Baku 40, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, El Nido 27: Baku leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, El Nido 4: Baku leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, El Nido 30: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 57 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, El Nido 8: Baku leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, El Nido 40: Baku leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, El Nido 22: Baku leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, El Nido 7: Baku leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Baku and El Nido are level on 64.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, El Nido 7: Baku leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and El Nido.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
15 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

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. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBakuEl Nido
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m35 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuEl Nido
City population2,300,50051,367
People per km²1,07556
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.