VacationSelector

Kotor or Kyoto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Kotor
36
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KotorKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 60 points.60
KotorKyoto
Score7717
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km500
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 58 points.58
KotorKyoto
Score2684
Restaurants within 2 km of centre715,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 44 points.44
KotorKyoto
Score2872
Museums within 10 km7132
Museums within 2 km of centre351
Share of museums within 2 km %4339
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 76 points.76
KotorKyoto
Score480
Drinking venues within 4 km463,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre382,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8373
Nightclubs within 4 km326
Nature & day trips. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
KotorKyoto
Score1522
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %52
Land share of disc %66100
Park area within 2 km2 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 57 points.57
KotorKyoto
Score966
Tourist attractions within 2 km862
Park area within 2 km2 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 31 points.31
KotorKyoto
Score2152
Notable places within 2 km1379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
KotorKyoto
Score8770
Price level global38.962.4
Daily budget€95—
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KotorKyoto
Score6162
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months10
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorKyoto
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 44 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 30 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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 2026-09 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureKotorKyoto
Official languageMontenegrinJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m51 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorKyoto
City population5621,463,723
People per km²–1,768
Museums within 10 km376
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre2789
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.