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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Monaco or Telluride?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Monaco leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Telluride 38: Monaco leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Telluride 20: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Telluride 20: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Telluride 30: Monaco leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Telluride 45: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Telluride 66: Monaco leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Telluride 25: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Telluride 7: Telluride leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Telluride 35: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Telluride 45: Monaco leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Telluride.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 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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MonacoTelluride

Where the figures come from

Telluride 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). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoTelluride
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 m2,667 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoTelluride
City population38,8572,607
People per km²18,5031,372
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.