VacationSelector

Kotor or Malaga?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
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.

KotorMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 11 points.11
KotorMalaga
Score7766
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km5021
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 43 points.43
KotorMalaga
Score2669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre711,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 25 points.25
KotorMalaga
Score2853
Museums within 10 km740
Museums within 2 km of centre335
Share of museums within 2 km %4388
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 50 points.50
KotorMalaga
Score454
Drinking venues within 4 km46715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km345
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
KotorMalaga
Score1543
Protected land share 50 km %107
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6663
Park area within 2 km2 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 44 points.44
KotorMalaga
Score953
Tourist attractions within 2 km833
Park area within 2 km2 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 16 points.16
KotorMalaga
Score2137
Notable places within 2 km1333
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
KotorMalaga
Score8771
Price level global38.960.8
Daily budget€95€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 21 points.21
KotorMalaga
Score6182
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months15
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureKotorMalaga
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m18 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorMalaga
City population562599,063
People per km²–1,517
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2765
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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). 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.