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The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

El Nido or Tunis?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: El Nido leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. El Nido 27, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. El Nido 4, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. El Nido 30, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. El Nido 87, Tunis 45: El Nido leads by 42 points.
Day trips. El Nido 8, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 69 points.
Good for families. El Nido 40, Tunis 38: El Nido leads by 2 points.
Getting around. El Nido 22, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. El Nido 7, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 43 points.
Affordability. El Nido 64, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. El Nido 7, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. El Nido 46, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: El Nido and Tunis.

Your match

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

El Nido
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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. Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEl NidoTunis
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishArabic
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation35 m4 m
Main airportEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureEl NidoTunis
City population51,367602,560
People per km²562,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.