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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Krakow?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Krakow for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: El Nido leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Krakow 62: El Nido leads by 25 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 68 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 41 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Krakow 36: El Nido leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Krakow.

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.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoKrakow

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. El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoKrakow
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishPolish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m219 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoKrakow
City population51,367804,237
People per km²562,459
Museums within 10 km0113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.