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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • 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. Chengdu 5, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Kotor 37: Chengdu leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Kotor 55: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Kotor 30: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Kotor 72: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Kotor 36: Chengdu leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Kotor 48: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Kotor 20: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Kotor 57: Chengdu leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Kotor 20: Chengdu leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Kotor 24: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Kotor.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduKotor
Official languagePutonghuaMontenegrin
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation500 m10 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureChengduKotor
City population20,937,757562
People per km²1,456-
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.