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The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Boston 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 Boston for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Boston’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. Boston 35, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Boston 64, El Nido 27: Boston leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Boston 72, El Nido 4: Boston leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Boston 47, El Nido 30: Boston leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boston 60, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Boston 72, El Nido 8: Boston leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Boston 72, El Nido 40: Boston leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Boston 70, El Nido 22: Boston leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Boston 55, El Nido 7: Boston leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Boston 18, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boston 72, El Nido 7: Boston leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boston 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: Boston and El Nido.

Your match

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

Boston
Best match
56match

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

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °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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BostonEl 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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBostonEl 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
Elevation43 m35 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonEl Nido
City population675,64751,367
People per km²2,91056
Museums within 10 km510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. 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.