VacationSelector

Cancun or Kotor?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CancunKotor
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 20 points.20
CancunKotor
Score9777
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km2350
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 28 points.28
CancunKotor
Score5426
Restaurants within 2 km of centre68171
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 8 points.8
CancunKotor
Score2028
Museums within 10 km17
Museums within 2 km of centre13
Share of museums within 2 km %10043
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Cancun leads by 32 points.32
CancunKotor
Score364
Drinking venues within 4 km27046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre17538
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6583
Nightclubs within 4 km333
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 39 points.39
CancunKotor
Score5415
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %4566
Park area within 2 km66 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Cancun leads by 23 points.23
CancunKotor
Score329
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km66 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
CancunKotor
Score421
Notable places within 2 km513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 11 points.11
CancunKotor
Score7687
Price level global54.238.9
Daily budget—€95
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 20 points.20
CancunKotor
Score8161
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCancunKotor
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€94-124
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 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

MeasureCancunKotor
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaMontenegrin
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m10 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days–

By the numbers

MeasureCancunKotor
City population888,797562
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3127
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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.