VacationSelector

Monaco or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MonacoPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km501
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 38 points.38
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score3977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score3860
Museums within 10 km2389
Museums within 2 km of centre848
Share of museums within 2 km %3554
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 51 points.51
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score859
Drinking venues within 4 km69930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9162
Nightclubs within 4 km741
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 4 points.4
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score5349
Protected land share 50 km %2414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5489
Park area within 2 km15 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score3553
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km15 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score6454
Notable places within 2 km15488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 14 points.14
MonacoPhiladelphia
Score7460
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months30
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMonacoPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
PraguePRG
1 h 45 m
€150-188
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureMonacoPhiladelphia
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoPhiladelphia
City population38,8571,603,797
People per km²18,5034,339
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2975
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Monaco or Philadelphia somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.