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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • families
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kotor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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. Interlaken 30, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Kotor 80: Interlaken leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Kotor 72: Interlaken leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Kotor 36: Interlaken leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Kotor 48: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Kotor 20: Interlaken leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Kotor 20: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Kotor 24: Interlaken leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Kotor.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on prices 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.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Interlaken 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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenKotor
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshMontenegrin
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m10 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenKotor
City population6,123562
People per km²1,424-
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). 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. 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.

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.