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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

El Nido or Nashville?

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 Nashville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: El Nido leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Nashville 46: El Nido leads by 41 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 44 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 15 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 35 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Nashville 30: El Nido leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 75 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Nashville 20: El Nido leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Nashville.

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.

Nashville
Best match
46match

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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 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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El NidoNashville

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. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoNashville
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m182 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoNashville
City population51,367689,447
People per km²56506
Museums within 10 km012
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.