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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

El Nido or Luxor?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: El Nido leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Luxor 30: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 91 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Luxor 10: El Nido leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Luxor 32: El Nido leads by 55 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 54 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Luxor 30: El Nido leads by 10 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Luxor 35: Luxor leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Luxor 25: Luxor leads by 18 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Luxor 10: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Luxor 28: El Nido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Luxor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

El Nido
36match

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

Luxor
38match

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

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 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.

Luxor 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. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoLuxor
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishArabic
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation35 m89 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoLuxor
City population51,367202,232
People per km²56486
Museums within 10 km04
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.