VacationSelector

Cardiff or Kotor?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

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

Kotor
36
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

CardiffKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 31 points.31
CardiffKotor
Score4677
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km850
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 34 points.34
CardiffKotor
Score6026
Restaurants within 2 km of centre54171
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffKotor
Score3928
Museums within 10 km617
Museums within 2 km of centre63
Share of museums within 2 km %1043
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 44 points.44
CardiffKotor
Score484
Drinking venues within 4 km53646
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre39538
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km353
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 35 points.35
CardiffKotor
Score5015
Protected land share 50 km %1810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %155
Land share of disc %6866
Park area within 2 km88 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 23 points.23
CardiffKotor
Score329
Tourist attractions within 2 km48
Park area within 2 km88 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 24 points.24
CardiffKotor
Score4521
Notable places within 2 km5113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 33 points.33
CardiffKotor
Score5487
Price level global84.938.9
Daily budget—€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 7 points.7
CardiffKotor
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months01
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffKotor
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 137 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffKotor
Official languageEnglishMontenegrin
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m10 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days–

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffKotor
City population383,536562
People per km²2,734–
Museums within 10 km93
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5527
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.