VacationSelector

Bruges or Kotor?

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

Your match

Bruges
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BrugesKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 69 points.69
BrugesKotor
Score877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km150
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 31 points.31
BrugesKotor
Score5726
Restaurants within 2 km of centre44371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 29 points.29
BrugesKotor
Score5728
Museums within 10 km307
Museums within 2 km of centre243
Share of museums within 2 km %8043
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 30 points.30
BrugesKotor
Score344
Drinking venues within 4 km29246
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre23338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8083
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 11 points.11
BrugesKotor
Score2615
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %6566
Park area within 2 km59 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 51 points.51
BrugesKotor
Score609
Tourist attractions within 2 km528
Park area within 2 km59 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesKotor
Score4021
Notable places within 2 km4013
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 27 points.27
BrugesKotor
Score6087
Price level global76.238.9
Daily budget€180€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 5 points.5
BrugesKotor
Score5661
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months11
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesKotor
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
BelgradeBEG
2 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBrugesKotor
Official languageFrench, German, DutchMontenegrin
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
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days–

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesKotor
City population118,509562
People per km²840–
Museums within 10 km383
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5127
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.