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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Biarritz 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 Biarritz for

  • wellness
  • families
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Biarritz 68, Kotor 57: Biarritz leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Kotor 37: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Kotor 30: Biarritz leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Kotor 72: Biarritz leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Kotor 36: Biarritz leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Kotor 48: Biarritz leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Kotor 20: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Kotor 20: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Kotor 24: Biarritz leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Kotor.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °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. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzKotor
Official languageFrenchMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzKotor
City population26,206562
People per km²2,240-
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.