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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Montevideo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Montevideo 54: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Montevideo 34: Kotor leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Montevideo 55: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Montevideo 42: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorMontevideo
Official languageMontenegrin-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorMontevideo
City population5621,302,954
People per km²-1,785
Museums within 10 km336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.