VacationSelector

Kotor or Lisbon?

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.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

KotorLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 20 points.20
KotorLisbon
Score7757
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km5024
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 54 points.54
KotorLisbon
Score2680
Restaurants within 2 km of centre712,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 42 points.42
KotorLisbon
Score2870
Museums within 10 km7124
Museums within 2 km of centre354
Share of museums within 2 km %4344
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 61 points.61
KotorLisbon
Score465
Drinking venues within 4 km461,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km365
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 41 points.41
KotorLisbon
Score1556
Protected land share 50 km %1011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6654
Park area within 2 km2 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 60 points.60
KotorLisbon
Score969
Tourist attractions within 2 km882
Park area within 2 km2 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 45 points.45
KotorLisbon
Score2166
Notable places within 2 km13169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 13 points.13
KotorLisbon
Score8774
Price level global38.955.9
Daily budget€95€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
KotorLisbon
Score6178
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months14
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorLisbon
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
3 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
2 h 35 m
€126-176
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKotorLisbon
Official languageMontenegrinPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m100 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorLisbon
City population562545,796
People per km²–5,453
Museums within 10 km378
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre27106
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). 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.

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.