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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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. Atlanta 10, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Kotor 37: Atlanta leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta and Kotor are level on 55.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Kotor 30: Atlanta leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Kotor 36: Atlanta leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Kotor 20: Atlanta leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Kotor 20: Atlanta leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Kotor 24: Atlanta leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Kotor.

Your match

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

Atlanta
Best match
49match

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

Kotor
45match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 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

Atlanta 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m10 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaKotor
City population498,715562
People per km²1,433-
Museums within 10 km273
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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. 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.

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.