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The Calgary Tower above Olympic Plaza, Calgary
CalgaryThe Calgary Tower above Olympic Plaza
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Calgary by abdallahh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Calgary 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 Calgary for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Calgary’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. Calgary 8, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Calgary 45, El Nido 27: Calgary leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Calgary 35, El Nido 4: Calgary leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Calgary 40, El Nido 30: Calgary leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Calgary 88, El Nido 87: Calgary leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Calgary 55, El Nido 8: Calgary leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Calgary 68, El Nido 40: Calgary leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Calgary 42, El Nido 22: Calgary leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Calgary 42, El Nido 7: Calgary leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Calgary 42, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Calgary 46, El Nido 7: Calgary leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Calgary 42, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Calgary and El Nido.

Your match

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

Calgary
Best match
46match

Wins on day trips 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.

Calgary in July

25 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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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CalgaryEl 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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCalgaryEl Nido
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m35 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryEl Nido
City population1,306,78451,367
People per km²1,58356
Museums within 10 km130
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.