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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Monaco or New Orleans?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Monaco leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, New Orleans 42: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, New Orleans 52: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, New Orleans 55: Monaco leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, New Orleans 55: Monaco leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, New Orleans 25: Monaco leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MonacoNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre130 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.