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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Monaco or Taipei?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Taipei for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’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, Taipei 40: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Taipei 68: Taipei leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Taipei 58: Taipei leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Taipei 78: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Taipei 76: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Taipei 72: Taipei leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Taipei 66: Taipei leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Taipei 55: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Taipei.

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.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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

Taipei 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). Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoTaipei
Official languageFrenchTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialect
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112110 or 112 or 119
Elevation68 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoTaipei
City population38,8572,429,429
People per km²18,5038,938
Museums within 10 km1469
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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. 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.