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The Qasr al-Farid tomb at Hegra near AlUla, AlUla
AlUlaThe Qasr al-Farid tomb at Hegra near AlUla
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: AlUla by Richard.hargas, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

AlUla 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 AlUla for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. AlUla 3, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. AlUla 28, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. AlUla 70, Kotor 55: AlUla leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. AlUla 5, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. AlUla 72, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Day trips. AlUla 20, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Good for families. AlUla 35, Kotor 36: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Getting around. AlUla 15, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. AlUla 15, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Affordability. AlUla 18, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. AlUla 28, Kotor 20: AlUla leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. AlUla 45, Kotor 24: AlUla leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: AlUla and Kotor.

Your match

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

AlUla
30match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

AlUla in July

43 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

AlUla 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 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. AlUla: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Alula / Al ‘Ulá (23.7 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlUlaKotor
Official languageArabicMontenegrin
CurrencySaudi Riyal (SAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation692 m10 m
Main airportAl-Ula International Airport (ULH)24 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAlUlaKotor
City population32,413562
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.