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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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. Hoi An 72, Kotor 57: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Kotor 37: Hoi An leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Kotor 55: Hoi An leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Kotor 36: Hoi An leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Hoi An and Kotor are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Kotor 20: Hoi An leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Kotor 57: Hoi An leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Kotor 20: Hoi An leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Kotor 24: Hoi An leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Kotor.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on day trips 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.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine 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

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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnKotor
Official languageVietnameseMontenegrin
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation13 m10 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnKotor
City population121,716562
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). 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. 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.