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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Monaco or Myrtle Beach?

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 Monaco for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • prices
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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. Monaco 68, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Myrtle Beach 38: Monaco leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Myrtle Beach 20: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Myrtle Beach 42: Monaco leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Myrtle Beach 46: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Myrtle Beach 50: Monaco leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Myrtle Beach 18: Monaco leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Myrtle Beach 38: Monaco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Myrtle Beach 30: Monaco leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Myrtle Beach 28: Monaco leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on prices and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Myrtle Beach 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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoMyrtle Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m8 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoMyrtle Beach
City population38,85735,682
People per km²18,503591
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 months

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Sources

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. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.