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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Cork 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 Cork for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Cork 25, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Kotor 37: Cork leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Kotor 30: Cork leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Kotor 36: Cork leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Kotor 48: Cork leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Kotor 20: Cork leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Kotor 20: Cork leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Kotor 24: Kotor leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cork
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkKotor
Official languageEnglish, IrishMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCorkKotor
City population222,333562
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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.