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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

El Nido or Hanoi?

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 El Nido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Hanoi for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Hanoi’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. El Nido 92, Hanoi 6: El Nido leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Hanoi 85: Hanoi leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Hanoi 72: Hanoi leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Hanoi 50: Hanoi leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Hanoi 52: El Nido leads by 35 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Hanoi 58: Hanoi leads by 50 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Hanoi 35: El Nido leads by 5 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Hanoi 36: Hanoi leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Hanoi 50: Hanoi leads by 43 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Hanoi 98: Hanoi leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Hanoi 40: Hanoi leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido and Hanoi are level on 46.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Hanoi.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

Hanoi in July

34 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
311 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoHanoi

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.

Hanoi's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Phu Lien.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoHanoi
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishVietnamese
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Dong (VND)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation35 m10 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days-

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoHanoi
City population51,3678,717,600
People per km²562,595
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.