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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Las Vegas?

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 Las Vegas for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: El Nido leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Las Vegas 25: Las Vegas leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Las Vegas 68: El Nido leads by 19 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Las Vegas 25: Las Vegas leads by 17 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Las Vegas 25: El Nido leads by 15 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Las Vegas 38: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 57 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Las Vegas 35: El Nido leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 71 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Las Vegas 40: El Nido leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Las Vegas.

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.

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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. El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m610 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoLas Vegas
City population51,367641,903
People per km²561,843
Museums within 10 km021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.