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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Hiroshima 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 Hiroshima for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Hiroshima 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, Kotor 37: Hiroshima leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, Kotor 55: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, Kotor 30: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima 62, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, Kotor 72: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, Kotor 36: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, Kotor 48: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, Kotor 20: Hiroshima leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, Kotor 57: Hiroshima leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, Kotor 20: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, Kotor 24: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and Kotor.

Your match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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.

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaKotor
Official languageJapaneseMontenegrin
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaKotor
City population1,198,021562
People per km²1,324-
Museums within 10 km183
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.