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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Porto?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Porto for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: El Nido leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Porto 70: Porto leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Porto 68: Porto leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Porto 65: Porto leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Porto 64: El Nido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Porto 79: Porto leads by 71 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Porto 52: Porto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Porto 66: Porto leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Porto 52: Porto leads by 45 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Porto 62: El Nido leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Porto 52: Porto leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Porto 34: El Nido leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Porto.

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.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoPorto
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishPortuguese
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m104 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoPorto
City population51,367273,476
People per km²566,606
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.