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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Monaco for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Havana 64, Monaco 68: Monaco leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Monaco 55: Havana leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Monaco 48: Havana leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Monaco 3: Havana leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Monaco 63: Havana leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Monaco.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaMonaco
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m68 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaMonaco
City population2,492,61838,857
People per km²3,42318,503
Museums within 10 km1214
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). 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). 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.