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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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. Edinburgh 22, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Kotor 37: Edinburgh leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Kotor 55: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Kotor 30: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Kotor 72: Edinburgh leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Kotor 36: Edinburgh leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Kotor 48: Edinburgh leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Kotor 20: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Kotor 20: Edinburgh leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Kotor 24: Edinburgh leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Kotor.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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.

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

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 centre163 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 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
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). 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.

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.