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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Monaco or Naples?

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
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Naples for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Naples 83: Naples leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Naples 87: Naples leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Naples 60: Naples leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Naples 77: Naples leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Naples 96: Naples leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Naples 45: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Naples 54: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Naples 60: Naples leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Naples 63: Naples leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Naples 66: Naples leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Naples 44: Monaco leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Naples.

Your match

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

Monaco
58match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on prices 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.

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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

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 centre130 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.