VacationSelector

Monaco or Reykjavik?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Monaco
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
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.

MonacoReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
MonacoReykjavik
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5033
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
MonacoReykjavik
Score3949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1629
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 12 points.12
MonacoReykjavik
Score3850
Museums within 10 km2334
Museums within 2 km of centre823
Share of museums within 2 km %3568
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 19 points.19
MonacoReykjavik
Score827
Drinking venues within 4 km69192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9186
Nightclubs within 4 km710
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
MonacoReykjavik
Score5359
Protected land share 50 km %2416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5456
Park area within 2 km15 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 7 points.7
MonacoReykjavik
Score3542
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km15 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
MonacoReykjavik
Score6448
Notable places within 2 km15461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 37 points.37
MonacoReykjavik
Score7437
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months30
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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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
3 h 35 m
€268-383
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 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

MeasureMonacoReykjavik
Official languageFrenchIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m8 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoReykjavik
City population38,857138,772
People per km²18,503569
Museums within 10 km1423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2942
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. 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.