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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Kotor for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Havana 64, Kotor 57: Havana leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Kotor 37: Havana leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Kotor 55: Havana leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Kotor 30: Havana leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Kotor 36: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Kotor 20: Havana leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Kotor 57: Havana leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Kotor 20: Havana leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Kotor 24: Kotor leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Havana
47match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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

Havana 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 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaKotor
Official languageSpanishMontenegrin
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m10 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaKotor
City population2,492,618562
People per km²3,423-
Museums within 10 km123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.