VacationSelector

Chicago or Kotor?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

ChicagoKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoKotor
Score5377
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km1250
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 55 points.55
ChicagoKotor
Score8126
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,14771
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3719
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 18 points.18
ChicagoKotor
Score4628
Museums within 10 km457
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %4443
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 58 points.58
ChicagoKotor
Score624
Drinking venues within 4 km1,12346
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre72838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6583
Nightclubs within 4 km513
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 23 points.23
ChicagoKotor
Score3815
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %10066
Park area within 2 km118 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 46 points.46
ChicagoKotor
Score559
Tourist attractions within 2 km188
Park area within 2 km118 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 49 points.49
ChicagoKotor
Score7021
Notable places within 2 km21713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 44 points.44
ChicagoKotor
Score4387
Price level global10038.9
Daily budget€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoKotor
Score5761
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoKotor
BelgradeBEG
10 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
DublinDUB
7 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
MunichMUC
9 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 44 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 2026-08 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

MeasureChicagoKotor
Official languageMontenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m10 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoKotor
City population2,746,388562
People per km²4,529
Museums within 10 km433
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8727
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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.