VacationSelector

Dublin or Monaco?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
DublinMonaco
Score4973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1150
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 31 points.31
DublinMonaco
Score7039
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 17 points.17
DublinMonaco
Score5538
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre378
Share of museums within 2 km %7935
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 56 points.56
DublinMonaco
Score648
Drinking venues within 4 km1,23969
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre93463
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km407
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 27 points.27
DublinMonaco
Score2653
Protected land share 50 km %324
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %6254
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 19 points.19
DublinMonaco
Score5435
Tourist attractions within 2 km4114
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
DublinMonaco
Score6264
Notable places within 2 km141154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 20 points.20
DublinMonaco
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinMonaco
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m68 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMonaco
City population592,71338,857
People per km²5,15418,503
Museums within 10 km4014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7429
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.