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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Kotor or Manaus?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Manaus for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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, Manaus 38: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Manaus 46: Kotor leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Manaus 12: Kotor leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Manaus 35: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Manaus 27: Kotor leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Manaus 20: Kotor leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Manaus.

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 day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorManaus
Official languageMontenegrinPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m92 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorManaus
City population5622,303,732
People per km²-202
Museums within 10 km313
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.