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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Monaco or Siem Reap?

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

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Monaco leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Siem Reap 45: Monaco leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Siem Reap 42: Monaco leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Siem Reap 40: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Siem Reap 55: Monaco leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Siem Reap 35: Monaco leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Siem Reap 30: Monaco leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Siem Reap 38: Monaco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 85 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Siem Reap 32: Monaco leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Siem Reap.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMonacoSiem Reap
Official languageFrenchKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation68 m18 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoSiem Reap
City population38,857147,866
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.