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The Auckland skyline and Sky Tower from the Waitematā Harbour, Auckland
AucklandThe Auckland skyline and Sky Tower from the Waitematā Harbour
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Auckland by Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, Public domain; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Auckland 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 Auckland for

  • families
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Auckland 68, Kotor 57: Auckland leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Auckland 62, Kotor 37: Auckland leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Auckland 44, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Auckland 42, Kotor 30: Auckland leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Auckland 83, Kotor 80: Auckland leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Auckland 55, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Auckland 70, Kotor 36: Auckland leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Auckland 42, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Auckland 45, Kotor 20: Auckland leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Auckland 32, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Auckland 45, Kotor 20: Auckland leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Auckland 45, Kotor 24: Auckland leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Auckland and Kotor.

Your match

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

Auckland
Best match
53match

Wins on families and food and drink with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices 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.

Auckland in July

14 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
135 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 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

Auckland's station stands 189 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler 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. Auckland: 1961-1990 normals, Auckland Aerodrome Aws (17 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAucklandKotor
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriMontenegrin
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111112
Elevation196 m10 m
Main airportAuckland International Airport (AKL)18 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAucklandKotor
City population1,470,100562
People per km²2,630-
Museums within 10 km153
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.