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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Monaco or Sedona?

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
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Monaco leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Sedona 33: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Sedona 20: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Sedona 8: Monaco leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Sedona 55: Monaco leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Sedona 42: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Sedona 22: Monaco leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Sedona 34: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Sedona 18: Sedona leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Sedona 13: Monaco leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Sedona.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoSedona
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m1,319 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoSedona
City population38,8579,684
People per km²18,503195
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.