VacationSelector

Manchester 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

Manchester
47
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?

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Scoreboard

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

ManchesterMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 45 points.45
ManchesterMonaco
Score2873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1050
Coast distance27 km0 km
Water distance27 km0 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 29 points.29
ManchesterMonaco
Score6839
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 4 points.4
ManchesterMonaco
Score4238
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre118
Share of museums within 2 km %4835
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 54 points.54
ManchesterMonaco
Score628
Drinking venues within 4 km1,02969
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre79263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7791
Nightclubs within 4 km827
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 17 points.17
ManchesterMonaco
Score3653
Protected land share 50 km %1724
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1717
Land share of disc %9954
Park area within 2 km63 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Monaco leads by 3 points.3
ManchesterMonaco
Score3235
Tourist attractions within 2 km514
Park area within 2 km63 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterMonaco
Score4864
Notable places within 2 km61154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 20 points.20
ManchesterMonaco
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
PraguePRG
2 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€150-188
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
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

MeasureManchesterMonaco
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m68 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterMonaco
City population547,62738,857
People per km²4,73718,503
Museums within 10 km2814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre6329
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.