VacationSelector

Athens or Kotor?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AthensKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 29 points.29
AthensKotor
Score4877
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km1450
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 43 points.43
AthensKotor
Score6926
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,43171
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2519
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 45 points.45
AthensKotor
Score7328
Museums within 10 km1227
Museums within 2 km of centre783
Share of museums within 2 km %6443
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Athens leads by 77 points.77
AthensKotor
Score814
Drinking venues within 4 km2,71846
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,35438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5083
Nightclubs within 4 km1363
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 30 points.30
AthensKotor
Score4515
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %5066
Park area within 2 km128 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 62 points.62
AthensKotor
Score719
Tourist attractions within 2 km688
Park area within 2 km128 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 54 points.54
AthensKotor
Score7521
Notable places within 2 km29113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 13 points.13
AthensKotor
Score7487
Price level global55.838.9
Daily budget€125€95
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensKotor
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months71
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensKotor
BelgradeBEG
1 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 10 m
€83-197
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

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 centre171 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8227
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.