VacationSelector

Barcelona or Kotor?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 12 points.12
BarcelonaKotor
Score6577
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km2050
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 64 points.64
BarcelonaKotor
Score9026
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,78671
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4119
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 40 points.40
BarcelonaKotor
Score6828
Museums within 10 km1057
Museums within 2 km of centre493
Share of museums within 2 km %4743
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 78 points.78
BarcelonaKotor
Score824
Drinking venues within 4 km2,71146
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,64138
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6183
Nightclubs within 4 km2453
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 35 points.35
BarcelonaKotor
Score5015
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %5166
Park area within 2 km49 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 56 points.56
BarcelonaKotor
Score659
Tourist attractions within 2 km608
Park area within 2 km49 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 52 points.52
BarcelonaKotor
Score7321
Notable places within 2 km25813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
BarcelonaKotor
Score7187
Price level global60.838.9
Daily budget€122€95
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaKotor
Score7861
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months51
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaKotor
BelgradeBEG
2 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€100-142
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€79-116
BCN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 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

MeasureBarcelonaKotor
Official languageSpanishMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m10 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days–

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaKotor
City population1,731,649562
People per km²17,094–
Museums within 10 km953
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre12827
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.