VacationSelector

Maastricht or Monaco?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MaastrichtMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MaastrichtMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 9 points.9
MaastrichtMonaco
Score4839
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtMonaco
Score5338
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %5735
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 22 points.22
MaastrichtMonaco
Score308
Drinking venues within 4 km22369
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre18263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8291
Nightclubs within 4 km137
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtMonaco
Score3753
Protected land share 50 km %1924
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1117
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km33 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtMonaco
Score4635
Tourist attractions within 2 km1514
Park area within 2 km33 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtMonaco
Score3664
Notable places within 2 km32154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtMonaco
Score5974
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 20 m
€107-192
NCE · 18 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
€120-160
NCE · 18 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€89-98
NCE · 18 km
PraguePRG
1 h 25 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€150-188
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
TunisTUN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtMonaco
Official languageDutchFrench
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 number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m68 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtMonaco
City population120,22738,857
People per km²2,00018,503
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3329
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.