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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Palm Beach?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: El Nido leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Palm Beach 58: El Nido leads by 29 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 47 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 59 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Palm Beach 12: El Nido leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoPalm Beach
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m2 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoPalm Beach
City population51,3679,245
People per km²56322
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.