VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Monaco?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

EdinburghMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghMonaco
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2050
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 31 points.31
EdinburghMonaco
Score7039
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghMonaco
Score5738
Museums within 10 km3023
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %7335
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 56 points.56
EdinburghMonaco
Score648
Drinking venues within 4 km1,19369
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88463
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7491
Nightclubs within 4 km657
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghMonaco
Score3553
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %117
Land share of disc %8554
Park area within 2 km166 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 37 points.37
EdinburghMonaco
Score7235
Tourist attractions within 2 km8714
Park area within 2 km166 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 4 points.4
EdinburghMonaco
Score6064
Notable places within 2 km126154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 23 points.23
EdinburghMonaco
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
PraguePRG
2 h 15 m
€135-214
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€150-188
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
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

MeasureEdinburghMonaco
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m68 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghMonaco
City population488,05038,857
People per km²1,88418,503
Museums within 10 km3214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7829
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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.