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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Huatulco 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 Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Kotor for

  • culture and sights
  • 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. Huatulco 86, Kotor 57: Huatulco leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Kotor 37: Huatulco leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Kotor 36: Huatulco leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco and Kotor are level on 20.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Kotor 57: Huatulco leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Kotor 24: Huatulco leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco 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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoKotor
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
Elevation220 m10 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoKotor
City population7,409562
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.