VacationSelector

Faro or Kotor?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

FaroKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
FaroKotor
Score6177
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km1350
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroKotor
Score4426
Restaurants within 2 km of centre25571
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2219
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 6 points.6
FaroKotor
Score2228
Museums within 10 km97
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %8943
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroKotor
Score214
Drinking venues within 4 km14346
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 42 points.42
FaroKotor
Score5715
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %4266
Park area within 2 km34 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 27 points.27
FaroKotor
Score369
Tourist attractions within 2 km108
Park area within 2 km34 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroKotor
Score2221
Notable places within 2 km1413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 13 points.13
FaroKotor
Score7487
Price level global55.938.9
Daily budget€109€95
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroKotor
Score8361
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months61
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroKotor
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 25 m
€156-284
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 0 m
€257-300
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroKotor
Official languagePortugueseMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKotor
City population64,560562
People per km²319
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3427
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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). 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. 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.