VacationSelector

Cologne or Kotor?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

CologneKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 77 points.77
CologneKotor
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4050
Coast distance256 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 46 points.46
CologneKotor
Score7226
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,14271
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 32 points.32
CologneKotor
Score6028
Museums within 10 km477
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %5743
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 60 points.60
CologneKotor
Score644
Drinking venues within 4 km1,10746
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre72738
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6683
Nightclubs within 4 km903
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 56 points.56
CologneKotor
Score7115
Protected land share 50 km %5310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %525
Land share of disc %10066
Park area within 2 km118 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 63 points.63
CologneKotor
Score729
Tourist attractions within 2 km438
Park area within 2 km118 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 32 points.32
CologneKotor
Score5321
Notable places within 2 km8113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 27 points.27
CologneKotor
Score6087
Price level global75.938.9
Daily budget€163€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 1 points.1
CologneKotor
Score6061
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneKotor
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
BelgradeBEG
2 h 5 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 137 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
DublinDUB
1 h 50 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneKotor
Official languageGermanMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m10 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneKotor
City population1,024,621562
People per km²2,530
Museums within 10 km403
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre8427
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.