VacationSelector

Monaco or The Hague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Monaco
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MonacoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
MonacoThe Hague
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5034
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 31 points.31
MonacoThe Hague
Score3970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
MonacoThe Hague
Score3862
Museums within 10 km2346
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %3557
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 38 points.38
MonacoThe Hague
Score846
Drinking venues within 4 km69511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9156
Nightclubs within 4 km719
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
MonacoThe Hague
Score5354
Protected land share 50 km %248
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5456
Park area within 2 km15 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
MonacoThe Hague
Score3556
Tourist attractions within 2 km1410
Park area within 2 km15 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
MonacoThe Hague
Score6454
Notable places within 2 km15486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 20 points.20
MonacoThe Hague
Score7454
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 18 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 16 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMonacoThe Hague
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation68 m1 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoThe Hague
City population38,857548,320
People per km²18,5035,589
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2977
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.