VacationSelector

Monaco or Riga?

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.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
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.

MonacoRiga
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 33 points.33
MonacoRiga
Score7340
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5057
Coast distance0 km12 km
Water distance0 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 20 points.20
MonacoRiga
Score3959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1633
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 23 points.23
MonacoRiga
Score3861
Museums within 10 km2369
Museums within 2 km of centre847
Share of museums within 2 km %3568
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Riga leads by 43 points.43
MonacoRiga
Score851
Drinking venues within 4 km69584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9178
Nightclubs within 4 km754
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 9 points.9
MonacoRiga
Score5344
Protected land share 50 km %2410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5473
Park area within 2 km15 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Monaco and Riga are level on 35.
MonacoRiga
Score3535
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km15 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
MonacoRiga
Score6462
Notable places within 2 km154137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 22 points.22
MonacoRiga
Score7452
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months33
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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
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
VilniusVNO
2 h 45 m
€144-179
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 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

MeasureMonacoRiga
Official languageFrenchLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoRiga
City population38,857588,911
People per km²18,503
Museums within 10 km1412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2955
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.