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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’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. Bogota 5, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, El Nido 27: Bogota leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, El Nido 4: Bogota leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, El Nido 30: Bogota leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, El Nido 8: Bogota leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, El Nido 40: Bogota leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, El Nido 22: Bogota leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, El Nido 7: Bogota leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, El Nido 64: Bogota leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, El Nido 7: Bogota leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and El Nido.

Your match

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

Bogota
Best match
52match

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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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BogotaEl 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBogotaEl Nido
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m35 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaEl Nido
City population8,034,64951,367
People per km²5,09256
Museums within 10 km300
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). 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.