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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Monaco or Punta Cana?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Punta Cana 30: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Punta Cana 8: Monaco leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Punta Cana 40: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Punta Cana 52: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Punta Cana 35: Monaco leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Punta Cana 15: Monaco leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Punta Cana 30: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Punta Cana 44: Punta Cana leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Punta Cana 15: Monaco leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Punta Cana 52: Monaco leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoPunta Cana
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m28 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoPunta Cana
City population38,857138,919
People per km²18,503292
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.