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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Guilin 8, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Kotor 37: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Guilin and Kotor are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Kotor 80: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Kotor 36: Guilin leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Kotor 20: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Kotor 57: Guilin leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Kotor 20: Guilin leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Kotor 24: Guilin leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Guilin
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Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinKotor
Official languagePutonghuaMontenegrin
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation153 m10 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinKotor
City population4,931,137562
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. 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.