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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Athens 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 Athens for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Athens 70, Kotor 57: Athens leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Kotor 37: Athens leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Kotor 55: Athens leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Kotor 30: Athens leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Kotor 72: Athens leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Kotor 36: Athens leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Kotor 48: Athens leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Kotor 20: Athens leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Kotor 20: Athens leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Kotor 24: Athens leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Kotor.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensKotor
Official languageGreekMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m10 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAthensKotor
City population643,452562
People per km²16,499-
Museums within 10 km883
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.