VacationSelector

Monaco or Tromso?

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

Your match

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MonacoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 21 points.21
MonacoTromso
Score7352
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5014
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Monaco leads by 15 points.15
MonacoTromso
Score3924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre26985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1616
Museums & heritage. Monaco leads by 15 points.15
MonacoTromso
Score3823
Museums within 10 km2310
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %3580
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Monaco leads by 1 points.1
MonacoTromso
Score87
Drinking venues within 4 km6967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9191
Nightclubs within 4 km75
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 42 points.42
MonacoTromso
Score5311
Protected land share 50 km %249
Landscape blanket share 50 km %179
Land share of disc %5465
Park area within 2 km15 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Monaco leads by 21 points.21
MonacoTromso
Score3514
Tourist attractions within 2 km149
Park area within 2 km15 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 36 points.36
MonacoTromso
Score6428
Notable places within 2 km15420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 41 points.41
MonacoTromso
Score7433
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureMonacoTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation68 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoTromso
City population38,85779,943
People per km²18,50332
Museums within 10 km148
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2923
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.