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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Durban 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 Durban for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Monaco for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Durban 80, Monaco 68: Durban leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Monaco 57: Durban leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Durban and Monaco are level on 60.
Getting around. Durban 20, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Monaco 3: Durban leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Monaco.

Your match

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

Durban
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around 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.

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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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DurbanMonaco

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanMonaco
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageFrench
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m68 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanMonaco
City population595,06138,857
People per km²2,63418,503
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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. 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.

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.