VacationSelector

Kotor or Riga?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

KotorRiga
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 37 points.37
KotorRiga
Score7740
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km5057
Coast distance0 km12 km
Water distance0 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 33 points.33
KotorRiga
Score2659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1933
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 33 points.33
KotorRiga
Score2861
Museums within 10 km769
Museums within 2 km of centre347
Share of museums within 2 km %4368
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Riga leads by 47 points.47
KotorRiga
Score451
Drinking venues within 4 km46584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km354
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 29 points.29
KotorRiga
Score1544
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6673
Park area within 2 km2 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 26 points.26
KotorRiga
Score935
Tourist attractions within 2 km87
Park area within 2 km2 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 41 points.41
KotorRiga
Score2162
Notable places within 2 km13137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 11 points.11
KotorRiga
Score8776
Price level global38.953.7
Daily budget€95€132
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 9 points.9
KotorRiga
Score6152
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months13
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
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Riga
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). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorRiga
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 44 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€94-124
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
VilniusVNO
2 h 20 m
€298-362
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 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

MeasureKotorRiga
Official languageMontenegrinLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKotorRiga
City population562588,911
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2755
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. 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.