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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Kotor or Puerto Escondido?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Puerto Escondido 8: Kotor leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Puerto Escondido 78: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Puerto Escondido 35: Kotor leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Puerto Escondido 40: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Puerto Escondido 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Puerto Escondido 12: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on wellness 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorPuerto Escondido
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 m60 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorPuerto Escondido
City population56229,903
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.