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Skiers at the Albion base of the ski area, Alta, Utah
Alta, UtahSkiers at the Albion base of the ski area
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Alta, Utah or Kotor?

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 Alta, Utah for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Alta, Utah’s own page.

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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. Alta, Utah 3, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Kotor 80: Alta, Utah leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Kotor 36: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Kotor 24: Alta, Utah leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Kotor.

Your match

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

Alta, Utah
23match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alta, Utah in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Alta, Utah has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alta, Utah: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,610 m10 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahKotor
City population228562
People per km²19-
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.