VacationSelector
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Monaco or Valparaiso?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Valparaiso 50: Monaco leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Valparaiso 60: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Valparaiso 63: Monaco leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Valparaiso 33: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Valparaiso 44: Monaco leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Valparaiso 30: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Valparaiso 38: Monaco leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Valparaiso 18: Monaco leads by 37 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150JFMAMJJASOND
MonacoValparaiso

Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoValparaiso
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation68 m21 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoValparaiso
City population38,857296,655
People per km²18,5036,180
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Monaco or Valparaiso somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.