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The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Boston 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 Boston for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Boston 35, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Boston 64, Kotor 37: Boston leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Boston 72, Kotor 55: Boston leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Boston 47, Kotor 30: Boston leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boston 60, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Boston and Kotor are level on 72.
Good for families. Boston 72, Kotor 36: Boston leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Boston 70, Kotor 48: Boston leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Boston 55, Kotor 20: Boston leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Boston 18, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boston 72, Kotor 20: Boston leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boston 30, Kotor 24: Boston leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boston and Kotor.

Your match

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

Boston
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices 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.

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBostonKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBostonKotor
City population675,647562
People per km²2,910-
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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.