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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

El Nido or London?

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 London for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: El Nido leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, London 84: London leads by 57 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, London 94: London leads by 90 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, London 88: London leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, London 57: El Nido leads by 30 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, London 90: London leads by 82 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, London 82: London leads by 42 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, London 85: London leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, London 95: London leads by 88 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, London 15: El Nido leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, London 98: London leads by 91 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, London 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 London.

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.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoLondon
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation35 m4 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoLondon
City population51,3678,799,728
People per km²565,598
Museums within 10 km0216
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. 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.