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The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

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

Denver 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 Denver for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Denver 5, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Denver 54, Kotor 37: Denver leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Denver 44, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Denver 47, Kotor 30: Denver leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Denver 84, Kotor 80: Denver leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Denver 57, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Denver 67, Kotor 36: Denver leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Denver 40, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Denver 44, Kotor 20: Denver leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Denver 36, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Denver 66, Kotor 20: Denver leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Denver 40, Kotor 24: Denver leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Denver and Kotor.

Your match

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

Denver
Best match
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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.

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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. Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDenverKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,609 m10 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDenverKotor
City population715,522562
People per km²1,783-
Museums within 10 km263
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.