VacationSelector

Monaco or Porto?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
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.

MonacoPorto
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
MonacoPorto
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5052
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 29 points.29
MonacoPorto
Score3968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1627
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 33 points.33
MonacoPorto
Score3871
Museums within 10 km23101
Museums within 2 km of centre857
Share of museums within 2 km %3556
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Porto leads by 50 points.50
MonacoPorto
Score858
Drinking venues within 4 km69900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9163
Nightclubs within 4 km738
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 20 points.20
MonacoPorto
Score5333
Protected land share 50 km %247
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5461
Park area within 2 km15 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 30 points.30
MonacoPorto
Score3565
Tourist attractions within 2 km14122
Park area within 2 km15 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
MonacoPorto
Score6454
Notable places within 2 km15485
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 3 points.3
MonacoPorto
Score7471
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months33
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LuxembourgLUX
1 h 25 m
€137-201
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€108-209
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureMonacoPorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m104 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoPorto
City population38,857231,800
People per km²18,5035,599
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2970
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.