VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Kotor?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

EdinburghKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 22 points.22
EdinburghKotor
Score5577
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2050
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 44 points.44
EdinburghKotor
Score7026
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,02371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 29 points.29
EdinburghKotor
Score5728
Museums within 10 km307
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %7343
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 60 points.60
EdinburghKotor
Score644
Drinking venues within 4 km1,19346
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km653
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghKotor
Score3515
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %15
Land share of disc %8566
Park area within 2 km166 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 63 points.63
EdinburghKotor
Score729
Tourist attractions within 2 km878
Park area within 2 km166 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 39 points.39
EdinburghKotor
Score6021
Notable places within 2 km12613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 33 points.33
EdinburghKotor
Score5487
Price level global84.938.9
Daily budget€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 10 points.10
EdinburghKotor
Score5161
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghKotor
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
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

MeasureEdinburghKotor
Official languageEnglishMontenegrin
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m10 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghKotor
City population488,050562
People per km²1,884
Museums within 10 km323
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7827
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.