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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Monaco?

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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Monaco for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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. Arequipa 8, Monaco 68: Monaco leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Monaco 57: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Monaco 55: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Monaco 70: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Monaco 3: Arequipa leads by 79 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Monaco.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches 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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaMonaco
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m68 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaMonaco
City population1,008,29038,857
People per km²1,55118,503
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.