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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Paphos?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Paphos for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Paphos 70: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Paphos 64: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Paphos 40: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Paphos 25: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Paphos 52: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Paphos 22: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Paphos.

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.

Paphos
Best match
50match

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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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.

Paphos 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorPaphos
Official languageMontenegrinTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m72 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorPaphos
City population56235,961
People per km²-1,987
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.