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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Kotor?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’s own page.

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cardiff 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Kotor 37: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Kotor 55: Cardiff leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Kotor 30: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cardiff and Kotor are level on 72.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Kotor 36: Cardiff leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Kotor 48: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Kotor 20: Cardiff leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Kotor 20: Cardiff leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Kotor 24: Cardiff leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Kotor.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Kotor has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

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 centre30 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.