Monaco Yacht Show 2026: Charter Rates near Port Hercule
Founder, TheThinksters.com
The Monaco Yacht Show 2026 opened on 23 September in Port Hercule and runs to Saturday 26 September. On 17 July 2026 the organiser expected the fleet to reach 120 superyachts by opening day; its list then named 43 new deliveries in 2026.
What is listed around the quay is another question. A charter client walking the pontoons during show week sees a wall of white hulls and may assume the market behind it is equally deep. We measured our own catalogue to find out.
The short answer is that the advertised rate falls quickly with distance, and the mix of categories changes with it. The median advertised daily rate inside 25 km of Port Hercule is €2,153, against €341 beyond 200 km. The top of the market within 100 km is 32 listings at €10,000 a day or more, in our pool. How the pool was built, and where it stops, is set out in the methodology section near the end.
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The listing counts and rates below come from GetBoat live charter listings measured on 23 September 2026; show dates and the fleet figure are the organiser's. Every rate quoted is an advertised daily asking price on that date, not a transaction.
The show dates
- Wednesday 23 September: 10:00-18:30, by invitation only.
- Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September: 10:00-18:30, open to all.
- Saturday 26 September: 10:00-18:00.
Entry closes 30 minutes before the show closes. Dates and hours come from the organiser's own pages, checked on 23 September 2026, and every figure below was measured on the opening day. Exhibitor coverage, the official yacht list and our notes on the event are on the Monaco Yacht Show page on GetBoat, and the rest of the season's events are on the yacht shows hub.
The frame: 8,178 listings within 100 km, 536 in the working pool
Within 100 km of Port Hercule our catalogue holds 8,178 charter listings. Of those, 3,401 quote a daily rate in euro, 4,711 quote in US dollars, one quotes in pounds sterling and 65 quote no daily rate at all.
Not all of them are ours to measure, though. Twelve marketplaces syndicate other sellers' listings into our catalogue, and counting a syndicated copy alongside the seller's own listing would count the same offer twice. After removing those twelve, 720 listings within 100 km remain, and 536 of them quote a daily rate in euro. That is the working pool.
All 536 were touched in the last 90 days, and six were touched in the last 30 days.
Distance and the advertised rate
The median advertised daily rate falls with every ring outward from Port Hercule, from €2,153 inside 25 km to €341 beyond 200 km.
| Ring from Port Hercule | Listings | Median advertised day rate |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 25 km | 154 | €2,153 |
| 25-50 km | 214 | €1,190 |
| 50-100 km | 168 | €629 |
| 100-200 km | 333 | €398 |
| beyond 200 km | 26,074 | €341 |
The gradient is steep and does not reverse at any ring. Each ring outward cuts the median sharply until the curve flattens beyond 100 km, which leaves the median inside 25 km at 6.3 times the median beyond 200 km.
The rings are great-circle distance from the harbour itself, at 43.7347 N, 7.4246 E, and the outer two rings run past the 100 km frame and appear for scale.
The make-up of the pool changes with distance as well. Mega yachts are 9.7 per cent of listings inside 25 km (15 of 154) and 13.6 per cent in the 25-50 km ring (29 of 214), so the second ring holds the higher share rather than the first. Further out the share falls to 1.2 per cent at 50-100 km (2 of 168), 0.9 per cent at 100-200 km (3 of 333) and 2.7 per cent beyond 200 km (696 of 26,074).
Holding the category fixed, the difference between the first ring and the outermost remains. Yacht, the largest category, has a median of €2,040 inside 25 km (128 listings) against €589 beyond 200 km (6,805 listings). Between those ends the curve is not tidy: €752 at 25-50 km (147), €916 at 50-100 km (73) and €874 at 100-200 km (91). Mega yachts show the same shape at the extremes: a median of €23,250 inside 25 km (15), €9,145 at 25-50 km (29) and €5,721 beyond 200 km (696). The two rings in between hold two and three listings, too few to report a median.
What these tables measure is the advertised rate by distance from the harbour on one date. Why the first ring stands apart we cannot say from listings alone; it may reflect where the boats are listed, and within the Yacht category the medians beyond the first ring do not fall monotonically.
Rates by category
Four categories account for 532 of the 536 listings, and their medians run from €386 for a sailing yacht to €10,773 for a mega yacht.
| Category | Listings | 25th percentile | Median day | 90th percentile | Median build year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yacht | 348 | €419 | €1,233 | €4,480 | 2018 (272 state a year) |
| Catamaran | 77 | €530 | €703 | €1,938 | 2022 (75) |
| Sailing yacht | 61 | €300 | €386 | €2,785 | 2018 (59) |
| Mega yacht | 46 | €7,067 | €10,773 | €29,303 | 2009 (46) |
The four rows give 532 listings; Boat (2), Fishing boat (1) and Other (1) are not shown, because each has fewer than five listings.
The mega yacht category is small, forty-six listings within 100 km of the show, and its 25th percentile of €7,067 sits above the 90th percentile of every other category in the table. It also has the highest median rate, €10,773, and the earliest median build year, 2009.
Catamarans have the latest median build year, 2022, and the narrowest spread between the 25th and 90th percentiles, €530 and €1,938.
The platform derives a week as six days and the listed week rates match that exactly, so the weekly equivalents of the medians are about €64,600 for a mega yacht and about €7,400 for a yacht. For a catamaran it is €4,218, for a sailing yacht €2,316.
The top of the market: 32 listings at €10,000 or more
Our pool holds 32 listings at €10,000 a day or more within 100 km. Here is how many reach each threshold, under the same pool rules and date as everything above.
| Advertised day rate at least | Listings within 100 km |
|---|---|
| €2,000 | 202 |
| €5,000 | 76 |
| €10,000 | 32 |
| €25,000 | 8 |
| €50,000 | 3 |
Widening the radius to 200 km changes little. Under the same rules the 200 km pool holds 869 listings. Of those, 234 are advertised at €2,000 a day or more, 85 at €5,000 or more, 36 at €10,000 or more, eight at €25,000 or more and three at €50,000 or more. The step from 100 km to 200 km therefore adds four listings at the €10,000 threshold and none at €25,000 or €50,000. Under these pool rules the 100–200 km ring adds no listings at either threshold.
Where the listings are
Within 100 km, 472 listings are listed in France with a median of €977, Monaco holds 45 listings at a median of €2,883, and Italy holds 19 listings at a median of €180. Country and town here are the address given in the listing, not where a boat is moored.
Nineteen Italian listings are too few to read as a market, so the €180 median is reported and not interpreted.
The addresses on the upper-rate listings name Monaco itself and Nice, 13 km away, then Antibes at 30 km, Cannes at 39 km and Mandelieu-la-Napoule at 44 km.
The Riviera against the wider Mediterranean, category by category
For yachts and mega yachts the median within 100 km is more than double the median for the same category in Mediterranean listings beyond 100 km; for sailing yachts and catamarans the gap is narrower.
| Category | Median ≤100 km | Mediterranean median >100 km | Ratio | Mediterranean listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yacht | €1,233 | €465 | 2.65× | 5,305 |
| Mega yacht | €10,773 | €5,314 | 2.03× | 380 |
| Sailing yacht | €386 | €233 | 1.66× | 7,740 |
| Catamaran | €703 | €466 | 1.51× | 3,655 |
The comparison applies the same pool rules on both sides and sets the same category against itself in two regions on one date, 23 September 2026. Yachts show the widest ratio at 2.65 times, and mega yachts follow at 2.03 times on a far smaller comparison base of 380 listings. Sailing yachts and catamarans, at 1.66 and 1.51 times, are quoted much closer to the wider Mediterranean.
These are medians of two geographical samples on the date of measurement, not a premium any client has paid, and they say nothing about why the samples differ.
Exhibiting brands in our charter catalogue
Six builders on the organiser's list have at least five charter listings within 200 km of Port Hercule in our pool, led by Sunseeker with 24 and Princess with 16.
| Brand | Listings ≤200 km | of which ≤100 km | Median day | 90th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunseeker | 24 | 20 | €2,883 | €7,179 |
| Princess | 16 | 15 | €4,123 | €5,363 |
| Riva | 10 | 8 | €3,707 | €16,974 |
| Azimut | 6 | 6 | €5,621 | not reported (fewer than 10) |
| Sanlorenzo | 6 | 3 | €4,155 | not reported (fewer than 10) |
| Pershing | 5 | 5 | €5,022 | not reported (fewer than 10) |
The count uses the same selection rules, within 200 km: twelve marketplaces excluded, euro daily rates only. A brand appears only where it has at least five listings, and its 90th percentile only where it has at least ten, so other exhibiting builders with fewer than five listings each are not shown.
The list is shorter than the syndicated feeds would suggest. Under a looser exclusion of four marketplaces, Sunseeker showed 119 listings at a median of €929, because those feeds carried mostly small rentals under the brand name. Stripping them out leaves 24 listings at a median of €2,883, and the strict pool describes what our own sellers list rather than what the wider web repeats.
Princess follows with 16 listings at a median of €4,123 and, among the three brands with a reported 90th percentile, the tightest tail, €5,363. Riva runs the widest, from a median of €3,707 to a 90th percentile of €16,974 on ten listings.
The table shows advertised rates for listings under each exhibiting brand within 200 km. The full charter catalogue is open to filter yourself, but its results are live and will not match our snapshot of 23 September 2026.
How to read these numbers during show week
If a figure is quoted to you during show week, check it against the distribution above before you compare it with anything else. Remember too that availability was not measured: a listing tells you what a boat asks and says nothing about whether it is free on the dates you want.
A yacht advertised at €4,480 a day within 100 km of Monaco sits at the 90th percentile of its category. A mega yacht advertised at €7,067 sits at the 25th percentile of its category, which means most mega yacht listings in this pool ask more than that.
Methodology and limits
Pool. GetBoat live charter listings measured on 23 September 2026: active listings with a charter price row, quoted in euro with a daily rate, with mapped coordinates. Distance is great-circle distance from Port Hercule at 43.7347 N, 7.4246 E.
Exclusions. Twelve marketplaces that syndicate other sellers' listings into our catalogue were removed: YachtBuyer, Boat24, Boatbookings, YachtCharterFleet, SamBoat, Click&Boat, Océans Évasion, Marenauta, GetMyBoat, BedNBlue, ViraVira and BoatBooker. Within 100 km that leaves 720 listings, 536 quoting a daily euro rate. The brand table and the 200 km threshold counts extend the same pool to 200 km, where it holds 869 listings, and a brand is reported at five listings or more, its 90th percentile at ten or more.
Checks. Six listings drawn from the top, middle and bottom of the pool all return HTTP 200 on the live site, and all 536 listings were touched in the last 90 days.
These are asking prices on one date. Every figure is an advertised rate in a listing on 23 September 2026. Nothing here is a transaction, a booking or a confirmed charter, and rates in listings can differ from what a client eventually agrees.
Availability is not measured. Our availability calendar carries no records after 2022, so we cannot say whether any listed boat is free during show week, and this article does not claim that any is.
Price movement is not measured. The price-change field was mass-rewritten between 1 July and 25 August 2026 and carries exactly one entry in the last 30 days. Nothing here describes a trend.
Length is not used. The length field mixes feet and metres and cannot be compared across listings, which is why this article groups by category and rate, never by metres, and the same rule holds for every table above.
Cabins and guest capacity are not used. Those fields are incomplete or corrupt in this pool.
FAQ
Are these the rates I would pay to charter a yacht during the Monaco Yacht Show?
No. They are advertised daily rates in listings on 23 September 2026, and they show what sellers asked on that date, not what any client agreed to pay. Nothing here is a booking or a confirmed charter.
Can I book one of these yachts during show week?
We cannot say. Our availability data ends in 2022, so this article says "listed" and makes no claim about free dates. Ask the operator to confirm availability for your dates.
Do advertised charter rates fall further from Monaco?
In this pool, yes, by median. The median advertised rate inside 25 km is €2,153, against €629 in the 50-100 km ring and €341 beyond 200 km. The mix changes too: mega yachts are 9.7 per cent of listings inside 25 km and 13.6 per cent in the 25-50 km ring, then 1.2 per cent, 0.9 per cent and 2.7 per cent in the rings beyond. Why the medians differ is not something listings can tell us.
How many charter listings near Monaco ask €10,000 or more per day?
In our pool, 32 listings within 100 km, and 36 within 200 km. Eight within 100 km are listed at €25,000 or more and three at €50,000 or more, and widening to 200 km leaves those two counts at eight and three.
Can I charter a yacht from a brand exhibiting at the show?
Six exhibiting builders have at least five listings within 200 km in our pool: Sunseeker with 24, Princess with 16, Riva with 10, and Azimut, Sanlorenzo and Pershing with six, six and five. Other exhibiting builders have fewer than five listings each and are not reported.
Where is the official exhibitor list?
The organiser publishes the official 2026 superyacht list at monacoyachtshow.com/en/2026-superyacht-list; on 17 July 2026 the organiser expected that fleet to reach 120 superyachts by opening day. Our own exhibitor coverage, with the official yacht list and notes on the event, is on the Monaco Yacht Show page.
