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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

El Nido or Saint-Tropez?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: El Nido leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Saint-Tropez 72: El Nido leads by 15 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 49 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 57 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Saint-Tropez 8: El Nido leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Saint-Tropez 35: El Nido leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Saint-Tropez.

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.

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °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.

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

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. Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishFrench
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 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 destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoSaint-Tropez
City population51,3673,582
People per km²56320
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.