VacationSelector

Monaco or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

MonacoVienna
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoVienna
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km5022
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
MonacoVienna
Score3977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 43 points.43
MonacoVienna
Score3881
Museums within 10 km23192
Museums within 2 km of centre8110
Share of museums within 2 km %3557
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 66 points.66
MonacoVienna
Score874
Drinking venues within 4 km691,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre631,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9156
Nightclubs within 4 km7108
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 21 points.21
MonacoVienna
Score5332
Protected land share 50 km %244
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 34 points.34
MonacoVienna
Score3569
Tourist attractions within 2 km1446
Park area within 2 km15 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 11 points.11
MonacoVienna
Score6475
Notable places within 2 km154287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
MonacoVienna
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months31
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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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€63-153
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 25 m
€120-160
NCE · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€101-156
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
TunisTUN
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureMonacoVienna
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation68 m151 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoVienna
City population38,8572,028,289
People per km²18,5034,890
Museums within 10 km14152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre29113
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.