VacationSelector

Kotor or Rio de Janeiro?

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 with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

KotorRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 23 points.23
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score77100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km5061
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Rio de Janeiro leads by 28 points.28
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score2654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1916
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 41 points.41
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score2869
Museums within 10 km7110
Museums within 2 km of centre351
Share of museums within 2 km %4346
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 53 points.53
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score457
Drinking venues within 4 km46818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8362
Nightclubs within 4 km350
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 47 points.47
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score1562
Protected land share 50 km %1021
Landscape blanket share 50 km %517
Land share of disc %6657
Park area within 2 km2 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 50 points.50
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score959
Tourist attractions within 2 km830
Park area within 2 km2 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 35 points.35
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score2156
Notable places within 2 km1398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 6 points.6
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score8781
Price level global38.946.1
Daily budget€95
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
KotorRio de Janeiro
Score6185
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm42 mm to 232 mm
Dry months10
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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Rio de Janeiro
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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorRio de Janeiro
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKotorRio de Janeiro
Official languageMontenegrinPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorRio de Janeiro
City population5626,211,223
People per km²4,930
Museums within 10 km370
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2727
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.