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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Monaco or Nuevo Vallarta?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Monaco leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Monaco leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Monaco leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Monaco leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Monaco leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco and Nuevo Vallarta are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Nuevo Vallarta.

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.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MonacoNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMonacoNuevo Vallarta
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m3 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoNuevo Vallarta
City population38,8571,301
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.