VacationSelector

Cape Town or Kotor?

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

Your match

Cape Town
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Cape TownKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
Cape TownKotor
Score6077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2950
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cape Town leads by 41 points.41
Cape TownKotor
Score6726
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65071
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4219
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 26 points.26
Cape TownKotor
Score5428
Museums within 10 km257
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %8043
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Cape Town leads by 43 points.43
Cape TownKotor
Score474
Drinking venues within 4 km48346
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38938
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8183
Nightclubs within 4 km473
Nature & day trips. Cape Town leads by 21 points.21
Cape TownKotor
Score3615
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %4266
Park area within 2 km27 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Cape Town leads by 27 points.27
Cape TownKotor
Score369
Tourist attractions within 2 km198
Park area within 2 km27 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cape Town leads by 24 points.24
Cape TownKotor
Score4521
Notable places within 2 km5113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 2 points.2
Cape TownKotor
Score8587
Price level global40.538.9
Daily budget—€95
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 25 points.25
Cape TownKotor
Score8661
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months61
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
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. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownKotor
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 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

MeasureCape TownKotor
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageMontenegrin
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation5 m10 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days–

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownKotor
City population3,776,313562
People per km²1,538–
Museums within 10 km223
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6527
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). 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. 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.