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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Monaco or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Puerto Escondido 48: Monaco leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Puerto Escondido 8: Monaco leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Puerto Escondido 45: Monaco leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Puerto Escondido 35: Monaco leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Puerto Escondido 42: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Puerto Escondido 40: Monaco leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Puerto Escondido 22: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Puerto Escondido 12: Monaco leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoPuerto Escondido
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m60 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoPuerto Escondido
City population38,85729,903
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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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.