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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Monaco or Stockholm?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Stockholm 68: Monaco leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Monaco
58match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoStockholm
Official languageFrenchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m22 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoStockholm
City population38,857984,748
People per km²18,5035,260
Museums within 10 km14266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.