VacationSelector

Lisbon or Monaco?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on 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.

LisbonMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
LisbonMonaco
Score5773
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2450
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 41 points.41
LisbonMonaco
Score8039
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3116
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 32 points.32
LisbonMonaco
Score7038
Museums within 10 km12423
Museums within 2 km of centre548
Share of museums within 2 km %4435
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonMonaco
Score658
Drinking venues within 4 km1,22569
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre95663
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7891
Nightclubs within 4 km657
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonMonaco
Score5653
Protected land share 50 km %1124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %5454
Park area within 2 km77 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 34 points.34
LisbonMonaco
Score6935
Tourist attractions within 2 km8214
Park area within 2 km77 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
LisbonMonaco
Score6664
Notable places within 2 km169154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonMonaco
Score7874
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months43
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 18 km
TunisTUN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€148-281
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

MeasureLisbonMonaco
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m68 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMonaco
City population545,79638,857
People per km²5,45318,503
Museums within 10 km7814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre10629
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). 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. 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.