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The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Guadalajara 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 Guadalajara for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Guadalajara 5, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Kotor 37: Guadalajara leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Kotor 55: Guadalajara leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Kotor 30: Guadalajara leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Kotor 36: Guadalajara leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Kotor 20: Guadalajara leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Kotor 57: Guadalajara leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Kotor 20: Guadalajara leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Kotor 24: Guadalajara leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Kotor.

Your match

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

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraKotor
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaMontenegrin
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,536 m10 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraKotor
City population1,385,621562
People per km²9,556-
Museums within 10 km173
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.