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The skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind, Anchorage
AnchorageThe skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Anchorage by Frank K., CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Anchorage 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 Anchorage for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Anchorage’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. Anchorage 8, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Anchorage 40, Kotor 37: Anchorage leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Anchorage 35, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Anchorage and Kotor are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Anchorage 93, Kotor 80: Anchorage leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Anchorage 33, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Anchorage 55, Kotor 36: Anchorage leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Anchorage 22, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Anchorage 28, Kotor 20: Anchorage leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Anchorage 28, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Anchorage 34, Kotor 20: Anchorage leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Anchorage 32, Kotor 24: Anchorage leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Anchorage and Kotor.

Your match

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

Anchorage
37match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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.

Anchorage in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
18 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

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. Anchorage: 1991-2020 normals, Anchorage Air Force Base (7 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnchorageKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-9, UTC-8 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m10 m
Main airportTed Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC)7 km from centre49 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAnchorageKotor
City population291,247562
People per km²58-
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.