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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Monaco or Orange Beach?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Orange Beach 40: Monaco leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Orange Beach 7: Monaco leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Orange Beach 30: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Orange Beach 60: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Orange Beach 50: Monaco leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Orange Beach 15: Monaco leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Orange Beach 25: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Orange Beach 38: Orange Beach leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Orange Beach 32: Monaco leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Orange Beach 32: Monaco leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Orange Beach.

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.

Orange Beach
41match

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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MonacoOrange Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoOrange Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoOrange Beach
City population38,8578,095
People per km²18,503196
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.