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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Monaco for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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. La Romana 84, Monaco 68: La Romana leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 4 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Monaco 3: La Romana leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Monaco.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMonaco
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation10 m68 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 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

MeasureLa RomanaMonaco
City population139,23838,857
People per km²51218,503
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.