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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Arequipa 8, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Kotor 37: Arequipa leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Kotor 55: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Kotor 30: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Kotor 36: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Kotor 48: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Kotor 20: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Kotor 57: Arequipa leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Kotor 20: Arequipa leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Kotor 24: Arequipa leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Arequipa
46match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Kotor
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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaKotor
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaMontenegrin
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m10 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaKotor
City population1,008,290562
People per km²1,551-
Museums within 10 km33
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.