VacationSelector

Bologna or Kotor?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
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.

BolognaKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 77 points.77
BolognaKotor
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km250
Coast distance74 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 32 points.32
BolognaKotor
Score5826
Restaurants within 2 km of centre82271
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2019
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 39 points.39
BolognaKotor
Score6728
Museums within 10 km587
Museums within 2 km of centre433
Share of museums within 2 km %7443
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 49 points.49
BolognaKotor
Score534
Drinking venues within 4 km72046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre53138
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km303
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 24 points.24
BolognaKotor
Score3915
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %15
Land share of disc %10066
Park area within 2 km119 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 46 points.46
BolognaKotor
Score559
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km119 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 39 points.39
BolognaKotor
Score6021
Notable places within 2 km12013
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 19 points.19
BolognaKotor
Score6887
Price level global64.938.9
Daily budget€155€95
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaKotor
Score6761
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaKotor
BelgradeBEG
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 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

MeasureBolognaKotor
Official languageItalianMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m10 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days–

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaKotor
City population387,971562
People per km²2,754–
Museums within 10 km663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6227
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.