The race
Understand the circuit.
See how Monaco’s street circuit fits into the principality, compare the main viewing areas and plan around the access changes that shape the weekend.
Above Guide / Monaco and the French Riviera
Monaco,
understood.
Plan the Monaco Grand Prix as a complete trip — where to stay, how to arrive, how the street circuit works and what deserves your time beyond the racing.
3–6 June 2027 — Provisional — subject to FIA World Motor Sport Council approval
The Monaco guide
The race is only one part of the trip.
The Monaco Grand Prix is not a conventional circuit weekend. The track occupies the city, ordinary routes change and the best base depends on much more than distance. Above Guide brings those decisions into one independent travel guide.
Plan in context
Four decisions shape the weekend.
Start with the structure of the trip: the circuit, the right base, the arrival journey and the shape of each race-week day.
Your base
Stay in the right place.
Compare Monaco with Beausoleil, Cap-d’Ail, Nice and the wider Riviera by journey, atmosphere and race-week practicality—not simply room price.
Getting there
Arrive with a plan.
Build the journey from airport or railway station to your base, then understand what changes once the roads become part of the circuit.
Race weekend
Make every day work.
Plan practice, qualifying and race day alongside realistic movement, meals and the parts of Monaco that remain worth exploring between sessions.
Featured / Race week
Make time for
what the race hides.
The places worth an hour between sessions, and what each one asks of a plan.
See everything to do01Restaurants
01RestaurantsCédric Grolet Monte-CarloExplore experience →Cédric Grolet Monte-CarloThe pastry chef’s Monaco counter, inside the Hôtel de Paris.Time30 minutesCost€PaceMonaco · Hôtel de ParisOpeningDaily 09:30-19:00WhereExplore experience →
02RestaurantsSalle EmpireExplore experience →Salle EmpireThe Hôtel de Paris’s state dining room, opening onto Place du Casino.Time120 minutesCost€€€€PaceMonaco · Hôtel de ParisOpeningNot publishedWhereExplore experience →
03RestaurantsLes Caves de l’Hôtel de ParisExplore experience →Les Caves de l’Hôtel de ParisThe hotel’s cellars, among the largest held by any hotel, visitable rather than merely drunk from.Time60 minutesCost€€€PaceMonaco · Hôtel de ParisOpeningNot publishedExplore experience →
04RestaurantsSalle Belle ÉpoqueExplore experience →Salle Belle ÉpoqueA listed interior at the Hermitage, used for dining and events rather than open daily.Time120 minutesCost€€€€PaceMonaco · Hôtel HermitageOpeningNot publishedWhereExplore experience →
05RestaurantsLe Train BleuExplore experience →Le Train BleuItalian cooking in a carriage-styled room at the entrance to the Casino’s gaming floor.Time120 minutesCost€€€PaceMonaco · Casino de Monte-CarloOpeningNot publishedWhereExplore experience →
06RestaurantsL’HirondelleExplore experience →L’HirondelleThe lighter kitchen attached to the thalassotherapy institute.Time90 minutesCost€€PaceMonaco · Thermes MarinsOpeningDaily 12:00-15:30WhereExplore experience →
07RestaurantsMada OneExplore experience →Mada OneCounter service at One Monte-Carlo — eat in or take away.Time30 minutesCost€PaceMonaco · One Monte-CarloOpeningDaily 08:30-18:00WhereExplore experience →
08RestaurantsLe LimúnExplore experience →Le LimúnBreakfast and lunch at a counter, from Benoît Witz’s kitchen.Time30 minutesCost€PaceMonacoOpeningDaily 09:00-21:00WhereExplore experience →
09RestaurantsL’Orange VerteExplore experience →L’Orange VerteBistronomic cooking — a shorter, less formal card than the starred rooms.Time90 minutesCost€€PaceMonaco · Monte-Carlo BayOpeningDaily 08:00-23:00WhereExplore experience →
10RestaurantsLas BrisasExplore experience →Las BrisasA summer-only Mediterranean room beside the water.Time120 minutesCost€€€PaceMonaco · Monte-Carlo BayOpeningDaily 12:30-17:00WhereExplore experience →
11RestaurantsMaona Monte-CarloExplore experience →Maona Monte-CarloA summer lunch that turns into an afternoon — Aegean in intent rather than Monégasque.Time120 minutesCost€€€PaceMonaco · Monte-Carlo BayOpeningNot publishedWhereExplore experience →
12RestaurantsLe Salon RoseExplore experience →Le Salon RoseMediterranean cooking at Monte-Carlo Beach.Time120 minutesCost€€€PaceMonte-Carlo BeachOpeningDaily 12:00-17:30WhereExplore experience →
13RestaurantsLe DeckExplore experience →Le DeckThe lunch terrace at Monte-Carlo Beach — lighter, and outdoors.Time90 minutesCost€€€PaceMonte-Carlo BeachOpeningDaily 12:30-15:30WhereExplore experience →
14RestaurantsLa Vigie ZanoniExplore experience →La Vigie ZanoniItalian cooking on the headland at Monte-Carlo Beach, with the sea on three sides.Time120 minutesCost€€€PaceMonte-Carlo BeachOpeningDaily 12:30-15:30WhereExplore experience →02Go deeper
Plan / Itinerary builderBuild your Monaco Grand Prix dayStart planning →The principality
Make time for
what the race hides.
The city the circuit runs through, for the fifty-one weeks a year it belongs to everyone else.
The climb out of Sainte Dévote, empty for fifty-one weeks of the year. 
Port Hercule, before the barriers go up. 
Casino Square, where the circuit runs past the front doors. 
The descent to Portier and the tunnel mouth. 
Larvotto, the other side of the principality. 
The Rock, above everything the race occupies. 
Terraces that overlook the track because the track came later. 
The harbour at dusk, ten days before first practice. 
Turn seven, and the wall that has ended more races than any other.
The circuit
Two miles of public road,
closed for four days.
Eighteen corners, the start line and the grandstands we can place. The shading is the ticketed perimeter: inside it, on race days, you need a pass to walk at all.
Drawing routeThe itinerary still works without the map.
Ticket-holders only, roughlyClosed to traffic and pedestriansOn foot with a race ticket
Closures are the 2025 regime, from Journal de Monaco n° 8743. The 2027 ordinance publishes about five weeks before the race. The shaded area is approximate — it is drawn around the closed roads and bulges slightly beyond the barriers, so treat it as “roughly behind the fence” rather than a boundary. Two streets the ordinance names are drawn without an exact extent and are left off entirely.
Grandstands are ticketed. Circuit geometry © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Your next step
Turn ideas into a race weekend.
Tell us how long you have and the Monaco you want. We’ll give the day a shape—without planning out the surprise.
Explore the route planner→Start with the time you haveChoose a route to open it in the planner
Qualifying day, from the harbourThe most compressed day of the weekend. One hard anchor in the afternoon, and everything else arranged around getting to it early and getting out of it slowly.Open in route planner →Race day, in your seat earlyThe day everything is constrained. Get in early, accept you are staying in, and plan the evening around a slow exit.Open in route planner →Race day from the rail corridorDesigned backwards from the journey home, because that is the part that goes wrong. Without a ticket the day is about being in the city, not in a grandstand.Open in route planner →Practice day, the cheap way inThe most relaxed day of the weekend and the best value: the cars run, the city still works, and the crowd is a fraction of Sunday’s.Open in route planner →The day before it startsMonaco without the noise. One fixed thing, a beach, and no journey that depends on a road being open.Open in route planner →Race day, from outside the noiseBeing near the race without being inside it. The aim is a day that can be abandoned at any point without ruining anything.Open in route planner →New in the guide
Just added.
The most recently researched places in Monaco Grand Prix, and what is actually on while you are here.
Around the race
Build the rest of the trip.
Where to stay
Hotels and apartments across Monaco and the French Riviera, organised around access as well as atmosphere.
Race & circuit
Understand the street circuit, viewing areas and how Monaco changes across the race weekend.
Yachts & harbour
Harbour experiences and marine options, from practical viewpoints to race-week hospitality.
Nightlife & parties
The venues and race-week events worth planning ahead, with location and travel context.
Beach clubs
Coastal places for the hours around the racing, from Monaco to the wider Riviera.
Restaurants
Destination dining, useful race-day tables and places that work for groups.
Transfers
Arrival routes, private transfers and the realities of moving through Monaco on race weekend.
Landmarks & culture
Monaco beyond Formula One: the old town, museums, gardens and defining architecture.
Tours & experiences
Ways to understand the principality, the circuit and the coast before or after the race.
Wellness & spa
Places to slow the weekend down, from hotel spas to restorative Riviera escapes.
Shopping
Monaco’s principal shopping districts and the places that are genuinely distinctive.
Bars & rooftops
Drinks with a view, late-night addresses and useful meeting places across the principality.
Day trips
Easy extensions along the Riviera when the trip is longer than the race weekend.
Casinos
Monte Carlo’s gaming landmarks, entry expectations and the character of each venue.
On the water
Active coastal experiences that fit around a Monaco stay.
More sport
Golf, tennis and sporting options within reach of Monaco.
Concierge & bespoke
Specialist support for complex groups and high-touch race-week arrangements.
An independent travel guide. Above Guide is not affiliated with Formula One, the FIA or the event organiser.
Race edition20273–6 June 2027Provisional — subject to FIA World Motor Sport Council approvalThe 2026 race, 5–7 June 2026, has taken place.