VacationSelector

Monaco or Munich?

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

Your match

Monaco
48
match

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

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MonacoMunich
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoMunich
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km506
Coast distance0 km579 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 34 points.34
MonacoMunich
Score3973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 23 points.23
MonacoMunich
Score3861
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre848
Share of museums within 2 km %3565
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 59 points.59
MonacoMunich
Score867
Drinking venues within 4 km691,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9157
Nightclubs within 4 km7103
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 5 points.5
MonacoMunich
Score5348
Protected land share 50 km %2417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1715
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 44 points.44
MonacoMunich
Score3579
Tourist attractions within 2 km1480
Park area within 2 km15 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 4 points.4
MonacoMunich
Score6468
Notable places within 2 km154196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
MonacoMunich
Score7456
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
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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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€164-220
MUC · 29 km
TunisTUN
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMonacoMunich
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m519 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoMunich
City population38,8571,510,378
People per km²18,5034,861
Museums within 10 km1474
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2989
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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. 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.