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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • shopping
  • beaches

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

Choose Kotor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • 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. Huntington Beach 70, Kotor 57: Huntington Beach leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Kotor 37: Huntington Beach leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Kotor 30: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Kotor 36: Huntington Beach leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Kotor 20: Huntington Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Kotor 20: Huntington Beach leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Kotor 24: Huntington Beach leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach 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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m10 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachKotor
City population198,711562
People per km²2,406-
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.