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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

El Nido or Monaco?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Monaco for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: El Nido leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Monaco 70: El Nido leads by 17 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 76 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 20 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 45 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Monaco 3: El Nido leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Monaco.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoMonaco

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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoMonaco
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m68 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoMonaco
City population51,36738,857
People per km²5618,503
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.