VacationSelector

Miami or Monaco?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MiamiMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 22 points.22
MiamiMonaco
Score9573
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km2050
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 26 points.26
MiamiMonaco
Score6539
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Monaco leads by 15 points.15
MiamiMonaco
Score2338
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre68
Share of museums within 2 km %2135
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Miami leads by 42 points.42
MiamiMonaco
Score508
Drinking venues within 4 km53869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre28763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5391
Nightclubs within 4 km637
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 19 points.19
MiamiMonaco
Score7253
Protected land share 50 km %1624
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %4854
Park area within 2 km50 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 9 points.9
MiamiMonaco
Score4435
Tourist attractions within 2 km1414
Park area within 2 km50 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 22 points.22
MiamiMonaco
Score4264
Notable places within 2 km45154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Miami and Monaco are level on 74.
MiamiMonaco
Score7474
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMiamiMonaco
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m68 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiMonaco
City population442,24138,857
People per km²3,04618,503
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3929
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.