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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Breckenridge 4, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 88 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, El Nido 27: Breckenridge leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, El Nido 4: Breckenridge leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge and El Nido are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, El Nido 87: Breckenridge leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, El Nido 8: Breckenridge leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, El Nido 40: Breckenridge leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, El Nido 22: Breckenridge leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, El Nido 7: Breckenridge leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, El Nido 7: Breckenridge leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 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: Breckenridge and El Nido.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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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BreckenridgeEl Nido

Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeEl Nido
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,926 m35 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeEl Nido
City population5,07851,367
People per km²33256
Museums within 10 km00
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.