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The Mezquita and the Roman bridge, Cordoba
CordobaThe Mezquita and the Roman bridge
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Cordoba by Jose María Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cordoba 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 Cordoba for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Cordoba’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. Cordoba 14, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Cordoba 62, El Nido 27: Cordoba leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Cordoba 81, El Nido 4: Cordoba leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Cordoba 40, El Nido 30: Cordoba leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cordoba 45, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Cordoba 86, El Nido 8: Cordoba leads by 78 points.
Good for families. Cordoba and El Nido are level on 40.
Getting around. Cordoba 68, El Nido 22: Cordoba leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Cordoba 38, El Nido 7: Cordoba leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Cordoba 63, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cordoba 47, El Nido 7: Cordoba leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cordoba 40, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cordoba and El Nido.

Your match

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

Cordoba
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Cordoba in July

37 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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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. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCordobaEl Nido
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation120 m35 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaEl Nido
City population323,26251,367
People per km²25856
Museums within 10 km160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.