VacationSelector

Hamburg or Monaco?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
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.

HamburgMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
HamburgMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1650
Coast distance22 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 34 points.34
HamburgMonaco
Score7339
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3816
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 22 points.22
HamburgMonaco
Score6038
Museums within 10 km9423
Museums within 2 km of centre508
Share of museums within 2 km %5335
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 60 points.60
HamburgMonaco
Score688
Drinking venues within 4 km1,33969
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre83463
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km1197
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
HamburgMonaco
Score4053
Protected land share 50 km %1424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1017
Land share of disc %9954
Park area within 2 km89 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 25 points.25
HamburgMonaco
Score6035
Tourist attractions within 2 km4014
Park area within 2 km89 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 5 points.5
HamburgMonaco
Score5964
Notable places within 2 km118154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 19 points.19
HamburgMonaco
Score5574
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months13
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
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
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 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

MeasureHamburgMonaco
Official languageGermanFrench
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 number112112
Elevation6 m68 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgMonaco
City population1,910,16038,857
People per km²2,53018,503
Museums within 10 km7714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8329
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. 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. 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.