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Kathmandu or Kotor?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
Kotor

Photo: Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License

Your match

Kathmandu
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45
match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

KathmanduKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 53 points.53
Food & drink. Kathmandu leads by 18 points.18
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 27 points.27
Nightlife. Kathmandu leads by 6 points.6
Nature & outdoors. Kotor leads by 10 points.10
Day trips. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
Good for families. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
Getting around. Kotor leads by 23 points.23
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 35 points.35
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 40 points.40
Live music & performing arts. Kathmandu leads by 8 points.8
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 21 points.21
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kathmandu and Kotor.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyKathmanduKotor
Daytime high29 °C33 °C
Night-time low20 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month384 mm38 mm
Sunshine4 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea25 °C
Daylight14 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Where the figures come from

Kotor's temperatures are measured 40 km from the centre, at Podgorica / Golubovci.

Kotor's rainfall is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKathmanduKotor
IstanbulIST, SAW
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 10 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
TGD · 40 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureKathmanduKotor
Official languageNepaliMontenegrin
CurrencyNepalese Rupee (NPR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:45UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 100, ambulance 102, fire 101112
Elevation1,300 m10 m
Main airportTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKathmanduKotor
City population845,767562
People per km²17,121-
Museums within 10 km93
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.