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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

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

Monaco or Victoria Falls?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Monaco leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Victoria Falls 24: Monaco leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Victoria Falls 12: Monaco leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Victoria Falls 8: Monaco leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Victoria Falls 22: Monaco leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Victoria Falls 38: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Victoria Falls 45: Monaco leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Victoria Falls 18: Monaco leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Victoria Falls 10: Monaco leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Victoria Falls 34: Monaco leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MonacoVictoria Falls

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoVictoria Falls
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation68 m961 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoVictoria Falls
City population38,85733,060
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km142
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. 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.