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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

El Nido or Milan?

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 Milan for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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, Milan 20: El Nido leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Milan 78: Milan leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Milan 78: Milan leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Milan 66: Milan leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Milan 65: El Nido leads by 22 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Milan 91: Milan leads by 83 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Milan 55: Milan leads by 15 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Milan 79: Milan leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Milan 92: Milan leads by 85 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Milan 33: El Nido leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Milan 82: Milan leads by 75 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Milan 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 Milan.

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.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoMilan

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.

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoMilan
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m138 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoMilan
City population51,3671,354,196
People per km²567,453
Museums within 10 km088
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.