VacationSelector

Monaco or Naples?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MonacoNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 3 points.3
MonacoNaples
Score7376
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km5029
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 7 points.7
MonacoNaples
Score3946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km167
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 40 points.40
MonacoNaples
Score3878
Museums within 10 km2384
Museums within 2 km of centre868
Share of museums within 2 km %3581
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Naples leads by 58 points.58
MonacoNaples
Score866
Drinking venues within 4 km691,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9169
Nightclubs within 4 km740
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
MonacoNaples
Score5337
Protected land share 50 km %247
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5456
Park area within 2 km15 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 6 points.6
MonacoNaples
Score3541
Tourist attractions within 2 km1411
Park area within 2 km15 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 14 points.14
MonacoNaples
Score6478
Notable places within 2 km154351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 1 points.1
MonacoNaples
Score7473
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMonacoNaples
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€39-65
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 25 m
€120-160
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€80-128
NAP · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 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

MeasureMonacoNaples
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m17 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoNaples
City population38,857913,462
People per km²18,5037,676
Museums within 10 km1465
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2931
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.