VacationSelector

Budapest or Kotor?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

BudapestKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 77 points.77
BudapestKotor
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 51 points.51
BudapestKotor
Score7726
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,69971
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestKotor
Score6428
Museums within 10 km1447
Museums within 2 km of centre643
Share of museums within 2 km %4443
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 68 points.68
BudapestKotor
Score724
Drinking venues within 4 km1,76546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,16838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6683
Nightclubs within 4 km973
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 25 points.25
BudapestKotor
Score4015
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %10066
Park area within 2 km111 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 62 points.62
BudapestKotor
Score719
Tourist attractions within 2 km758
Park area within 2 km111 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 48 points.48
BudapestKotor
Score6921
Notable places within 2 km20613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 7 points.7
BudapestKotor
Score8087
Price level global4838.9
Daily budget€104€95
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestKotor
Score6461
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestKotor
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
ViennaVIE
55 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 137 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestKotor
Official languageHungarianMontenegrin
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m10 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days–

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestKotor
City population1,685,209562
People per km²3,209–
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8627
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). 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. 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.

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.