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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Johannesburg 5, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Kotor 37: Johannesburg leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Kotor 55: Johannesburg leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg 62, Kotor 30: Johannesburg leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Kotor 36: Johannesburg leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Kotor 20: Johannesburg leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Kotor 57: Johannesburg leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Kotor 20: Johannesburg leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 28, Kotor 24: Johannesburg leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Johannesburg 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

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgKotor
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageMontenegrin
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,753 m10 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgKotor
City population4,803,262562
People per km²2,922-
Museums within 10 km143
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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.