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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Kotor or Los Cabos?

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 Kotor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nightlife
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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. Kotor 57, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Los Cabos 20: Kotor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Los Cabos 78: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Los Cabos 42: Kotor leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Los Cabos 28: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Los Cabos 28: Kotor leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Los Cabos 12: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 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.

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKotorLos Cabos
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorLos Cabos
City population562202,694
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

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. 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

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.