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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Kotor or Miami Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Miami Beach 52: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Miami Beach 52: Kotor leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Miami Beach 55: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Miami Beach 20: Kotor leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorMiami Beach
Official languageMontenegrin-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorMiami Beach
City population56282,890
People per km²-2,109
Museums within 10 km314
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.