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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Rovinj?

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 Rovinj for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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, Rovinj 70: El Nido leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Rovinj 25: El Nido leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Rovinj 60: El Nido leads by 27 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 60 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Rovinj 52: Rovinj leads by 12 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Rovinj 28: Rovinj leads by 21 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Rovinj 36: El Nido leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Rovinj 15: Rovinj leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Rovinj 42: El Nido leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Rovinj.

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.

Rovinj
Best match
45match

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

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoRovinj

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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoRovinj
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishCroatian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m0 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoRovinj
City population51,36712,968
People per km²56-
Museums within 10 km01
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. 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.