VacationSelector

Monaco or Palermo?

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

Your match

Monaco
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

MonacoPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 6 points.6
MonacoPalermo
Score7367
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km5013
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
MonacoPalermo
Score3950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1613
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
MonacoPalermo
Score3850
Museums within 10 km2332
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %3581
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 45 points.45
MonacoPalermo
Score853
Drinking venues within 4 km69799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9164
Nightclubs within 4 km716
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 17 points.17
MonacoPalermo
Score5336
Protected land share 50 km %244
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5445
Park area within 2 km15 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
MonacoPalermo
Score3541
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km15 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 7 points.7
MonacoPalermo
Score6457
Notable places within 2 km154104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
MonacoPalermo
Score7477
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months37
0255075100

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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€29-53
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€106-165
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
TunisTUN
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureMonacoPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoPalermo
City population38,857630,167
People per km²18,5033,924
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2933
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.