VacationSelector

Madrid or Monaco?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MadridMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MadridMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km450
Coast distance305 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 44 points.44
MadridMonaco
Score8339
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2816
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
MadridMonaco
Score7538
Museums within 10 km9723
Museums within 2 km of centre598
Share of museums within 2 km %6135
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 73 points.73
MadridMonaco
Score818
Drinking venues within 4 km2,41469
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,49863
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km3417
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 10 points.10
MadridMonaco
Score6353
Protected land share 50 km %1924
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km187 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 42 points.42
MadridMonaco
Score7735
Tourist attractions within 2 km6114
Park area within 2 km187 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
MadridMonaco
Score7564
Notable places within 2 km288154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
MadridMonaco
Score7274
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months73
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
TunisTUN
2 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridMonaco
Official languageSpanishFrench
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
Elevation663 m68 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridMonaco
City population3,506,73038,857
People per km²5,80118,503
Museums within 10 km8814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre10629
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.