VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Monaco?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamMonaco
Score4073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3350
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 44 points.44
AmsterdamMonaco
Score8339
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4416
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 42 points.42
AmsterdamMonaco
Score8038
Museums within 10 km9823
Museums within 2 km of centre698
Share of museums within 2 km %7035
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 62 points.62
AmsterdamMonaco
Score708
Drinking venues within 4 km1,54369
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,07863
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7091
Nightclubs within 4 km1147
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 7 points.7
AmsterdamMonaco
Score6053
Protected land share 50 km %2124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %8254
Park area within 2 km49 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamMonaco
Score6835
Tourist attractions within 2 km7414
Park area within 2 km49 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamMonaco
Score6864
Notable places within 2 km196154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamMonaco
Score5774
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€202-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamMonaco
Official languageDutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m68 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamMonaco
City population921,46838,857
People per km²4,20818,503
Museums within 10 km10114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9829
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.