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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

El Nido or Salzburg?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Salzburg for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: El Nido leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Salzburg 25: El Nido leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Salzburg 86: El Nido leads by 1 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 72 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 41 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Salzburg 32: El Nido leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 73 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Salzburg 55: Salzburg 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 Salzburg.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoSalzburg
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m424 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoSalzburg
City population51,367155,021
People per km²562,360
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.