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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Monaco?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Choose Monaco for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Marmaris 80, Monaco 68: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Monaco 48: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Monaco 70: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Monaco 60: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Monaco 3: Marmaris leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Monaco.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisMonaco
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m68 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisMonaco
City population97,81838,857
People per km²11118,503
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.