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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kotor for

Kotor does not lead in any category we score.

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. Catania 72, Kotor 57: Catania leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Kotor 37: Catania leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Kotor 55: Catania leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Kotor 30: Catania leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Kotor 80: Catania leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Kotor 72: Catania leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Kotor 36: Catania leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Catania and Kotor are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Kotor 20: Catania leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Kotor 57: Catania leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Kotor 20: Catania leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Kotor 24: Catania leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Kotor.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaKotor
Official languageItalianMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaKotor
City population311,584562
People per km²1,704-
Museums within 10 km253
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.