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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

El Nido or Tallinn?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: El Nido leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Tallinn 55: El Nido leads by 32 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 50 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 33 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Tallinn 47: El Nido leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Tallinn 50: Tallinn 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 Tallinn.

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.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoTallinn

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. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoTallinn
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEstonian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation35 m28 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoTallinn
City population51,367457,572
People per km²562,871
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.