VacationSelector

Monaco or Shanghai?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

MonacoShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 56 points.56
MonacoShanghai
Score7317
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km500
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 7 points.7
MonacoShanghai
Score3845
Museums within 10 km23108
Museums within 2 km of centre828
Share of museums within 2 km %3526
Unesco sites within 50 km20
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 11 points.11
MonacoShanghai
Score5342
Protected land share 50 km %249
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5482
Park area within 2 km15 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 46 points.46
MonacoShanghai
Score3581
Tourist attractions within 2 km1486
Park area within 2 km15 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km310
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
MonacoShanghai
Score6451
Notable places within 2 km15473
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 9 points.9
MonacoShanghai
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm43 mm to 216 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 18 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 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

MeasureMonacoShanghai
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation68 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoShanghai
City population38,85724,870,895
People per km²18,5033,922
Museums within 10 km1444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2964
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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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. 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.