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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • getting around
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • prices

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. Innsbruck 20, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Kotor 37: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Kotor 55: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Kotor 30: Innsbruck leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Kotor 80: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck and Kotor are level on 72.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Kotor 36: Innsbruck leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Kotor 48: Innsbruck leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Kotor 20: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Kotor 20: Innsbruck leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Kotor 24: Innsbruck leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Kotor.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckKotor
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation574 m10 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckKotor
City population132,499562
People per km²1,263-
Museums within 10 km283
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.