VacationSelector

Kotor or Paphos?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Kotor
36
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KotorPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
KotorPaphos
Score7779
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km5027
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 18 points.18
KotorPaphos
Score2644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 6 points.6
KotorPaphos
Score2822
Museums within 10 km78
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %4338
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 26 points.26
KotorPaphos
Score430
Drinking venues within 4 km46224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km311
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
KotorPaphos
Score1523
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6633
Park area within 2 km2 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 33 points.33
KotorPaphos
Score942
Tourist attractions within 2 km830
Park area within 2 km2 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Kotor leads by 2 points.2
KotorPaphos
Score2119
Notable places within 2 km1312
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
KotorPaphos
Score8770
Price level global38.961.4
Daily budget€95€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
KotorPaphos
Score6186
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 0 m
€257-300
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€94-124
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 40 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 110 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

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 centre41 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorPaphos
City population56235,961
People per km²1,987
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2736
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.