VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Monaco?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

LjubljanaMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
LjubljanaMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1050
Coast distance72 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 16 points.16
LjubljanaMonaco
Score5539
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4016
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaMonaco
Score5538
Museums within 10 km2623
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %8835
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 37 points.37
LjubljanaMonaco
Score458
Drinking venues within 4 km45869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre28463
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km247
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
LjubljanaMonaco
Score4053
Protected land share 50 km %1324
Landscape blanket share 50 km %517
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km75 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaMonaco
Score3835
Tourist attractions within 2 km1214
Park area within 2 km75 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 6 points.6
LjubljanaMonaco
Score5864
Notable places within 2 km109154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaMonaco
Score5674
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaMonaco
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 18 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 15 m
€180-215
LJU · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€138-207
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 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

MeasureLjubljanaMonaco
Official languageSloveneFrench
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
Elevation309 m68 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaMonaco
City population284,29338,857
People per km²1,73618,503
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6329
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.