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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

El Nido or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: El Nido leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Montevideo 34: El Nido leads by 53 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Montevideo 42: El Nido leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Montevideo 38: El Nido leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Montevideo.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoMontevideo

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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoMontevideo
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m41 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoMontevideo
City population51,3671,302,954
People per km²561,785
Museums within 10 km036
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.