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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

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. Bologna 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Kotor 37: Bologna leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Kotor 55: Bologna leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Kotor 30: Bologna leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Kotor 72: Bologna leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Kotor 36: Bologna leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Kotor 48: Bologna leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Kotor 20: Bologna leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Kotor 20: Bologna leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Kotor 24: Bologna leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Kotor.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

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 centre98 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaKotor
City population387,971562
People per km²2,754-
Museums within 10 km683
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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). 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. 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.