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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca 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 Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose El Nido for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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. Casablanca 50, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, El Nido 27: Casablanca leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, El Nido 4: Casablanca leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, El Nido 30: Casablanca leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, El Nido 8: Casablanca leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, El Nido 40: El Nido leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, El Nido 22: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, El Nido 7: Casablanca leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, El Nido 64: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, El Nido 7: Casablanca leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, El Nido 46: Casablanca leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and El Nido.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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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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. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaEl Nido
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m35 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaEl Nido
City population3,215,93551,367
People per km²8,37556
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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). 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. 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.