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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Oaxaca?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Kotor leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Oaxaca 62: Kotor leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Oaxaca 65: Kotor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorOaxaca
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,555 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorOaxaca
City population562258,913
People per km²-3,028
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.