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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Montreal?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Montreal for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: El Nido leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Montreal 66: El Nido leads by 21 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 47 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 28 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 53 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Montreal 45: El Nido leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 69 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Montreal.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 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 NidoMontreal

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. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoMontreal
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench, English
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m31 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoMontreal
City population51,3671,895,211
People per km²563,806
Museums within 10 km037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.