VacationSelector

Monaco or New Orleans?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MonacoNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 34 points.34
MonacoNew Orleans
Score7339
Swim season months47
Beaches 10 km503
Coast distance0 km21 km
Water distance0 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
MonacoNew Orleans
Score3961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1625
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
MonacoNew Orleans
Score3845
Museums within 10 km2342
Museums within 2 km of centre830
Share of museums within 2 km %3571
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 46 points.46
MonacoNew Orleans
Score854
Drinking venues within 4 km69704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9170
Nightclubs within 4 km741
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 28 points.28
MonacoNew Orleans
Score5325
Protected land share 50 km %244
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5489
Park area within 2 km15 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 11 points.11
MonacoNew Orleans
Score3546
Tourist attractions within 2 km1422
Park area within 2 km15 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
MonacoNew Orleans
Score6440
Notable places within 2 km15440
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 6 points.6
MonacoNew Orleans
Score7468
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMonacoNew Orleans
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m-2 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoNew Orleans
City population38,857383,997
People per km²18,503423
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2939
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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. 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. 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.