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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

El Nido or Telluride?

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 Telluride for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: El Nido leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Telluride 38: Telluride leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Telluride 20: Telluride leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Telluride 20: El Nido leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 6 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Telluride 30: Telluride leads by 22 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 5 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Telluride 25: Telluride leads by 18 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Telluride 7: El Nido leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Telluride 35: Telluride leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Telluride 45: El Nido leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Telluride.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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El NidoTelluride

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.

Telluride 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. Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoTelluride
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation35 m2,667 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoTelluride
City population51,3672,607
People per km²561,372
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.