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Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Hurghada 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 Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

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

Choose Kotor for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Hurghada 84, Kotor 57: Hurghada leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, Kotor 30: Hurghada leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, Kotor 36: Hurghada leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, Kotor 20: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, Kotor 57: Hurghada leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada 44, Kotor 24: Hurghada leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hurghada 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

Hurghada
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaKotor
Official languageArabicMontenegrin
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation11 m10 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaKotor
City population214,247562
Museums within 10 km13
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). 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.