VacationSelector

Monaco or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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.

MonacoParis
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoParis
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km502
Coast distance0 km149 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 51 points.51
MonacoParis
Score3990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2694,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1633
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 38 points.38
MonacoParis
Score3876
Museums within 10 km23185
Museums within 2 km of centre865
Share of museums within 2 km %3535
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Paris leads by 80 points.80
MonacoParis
Score888
Drinking venues within 4 km693,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre631,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9145
Nightclubs within 4 km7201
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 5 points.5
MonacoParis
Score5348
Protected land share 50 km %2428
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1726
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 40 points.40
MonacoParis
Score3575
Tourist attractions within 2 km1489
Park area within 2 km15 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 30 points.30
MonacoParis
Score6494
Notable places within 2 km154865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 8 points.8
MonacoParis
Score7466
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months31
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
ToulouseTLS
1 h 15 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€84-111
ORY · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
TunisTUN
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€153-251
ORY · 14 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€88-136
CDG · 22 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

MeasureMonacoParis
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m27 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoParis
City population38,8572,103,778
People per km²18,50319,960
Museums within 10 km14251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre29169
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.