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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Kotor or Marrakech?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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, Marrakech 7: Kotor leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Marrakech 64: Marrakech leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Marrakech 33: Marrakech leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Marrakech 70: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Marrakech 28: Kotor leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Marrakech 25: Kotor leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Marrakech 38: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Marrakech 25: Marrakech leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 51 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Marrakech.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Marrakech
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping 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

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorMarrakech
Official languageMontenegrinArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m465 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorMarrakech
City population5621,002,697
People per km²-4,360
Museums within 10 km314
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). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.