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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

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

Kotor or Orange 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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange 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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Orange Beach 40: Orange Beach leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Orange Beach 7: Kotor leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Kotor and Orange Beach are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Orange Beach 60: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Orange Beach 50: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Orange Beach 15: Kotor leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Orange Beach 25: Orange Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Orange Beach 38: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on families 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorOrange Beach
Official languageMontenegrin-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorOrange Beach
City population5628,095
People per km²-196
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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.