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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

El Nido or Jerusalem?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: El Nido leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Jerusalem 38: Jerusalem leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Jerusalem 60: El Nido leads by 27 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 72 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Jerusalem 52: Jerusalem leads by 12 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 41 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Jerusalem 20: El Nido leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Jerusalem 42: El Nido leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Jerusalem
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoJerusalem

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.

Jerusalem has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoJerusalem
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishHebrew
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation35 m754 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days-

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoJerusalem
City population51,3671,050,151
People per km²568,374
Museums within 10 km069
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.