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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Dublin 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 Dublin for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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. Dublin 27, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, El Nido 27: Dublin leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, El Nido 4: Dublin leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, El Nido 30: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, El Nido 8: Dublin leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, El Nido 40: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, El Nido 22: Dublin leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, El Nido 7: Dublin leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, El Nido 7: Dublin leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and El Nido.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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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DublinEl 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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDublinEl Nido
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m35 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinEl Nido
City population592,71351,367
People per km²5,15456
Museums within 10 km400
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. 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.