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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Monaco or Steamboat Springs?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Monaco leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Steamboat Springs 30: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Steamboat Springs 14: Monaco leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Steamboat Springs 20: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Steamboat Springs 12: Monaco leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Steamboat Springs 46: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Steamboat Springs 22: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Steamboat Springs 17: Steamboat Springs leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Steamboat Springs 28: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoSteamboat Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m2,052 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoSteamboat Springs
City population38,85713,224
People per km²18,503503
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.