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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Kotor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Florianopolis 85, Kotor 57: Florianopolis leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Kotor 37: Florianopolis leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Kotor 30: Florianopolis leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Kotor 36: Florianopolis leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Kotor 20: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Kotor 57: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Kotor 20: Florianopolis leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Kotor 24: Florianopolis leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Kotor.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisKotor
Official languagePortugueseMontenegrin
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisKotor
City population587,486562
People per km²870-
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.