VacationSelector

Kotor or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

KotorRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 40 points.40
KotorRotterdam
Score7737
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km5022
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 46 points.46
KotorRotterdam
Score2672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1946
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
KotorRotterdam
Score2860
Museums within 10 km741
Museums within 2 km of centre320
Share of museums within 2 km %4349
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 45 points.45
KotorRotterdam
Score449
Drinking venues within 4 km46542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km340
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
KotorRotterdam
Score1542
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6679
Park area within 2 km2 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 53 points.53
KotorRotterdam
Score962
Tourist attractions within 2 km827
Park area within 2 km2 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 30 points.30
KotorRotterdam
Score2151
Notable places within 2 km1374
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 29 points.29
KotorRotterdam
Score8758
Price level global38.979.2
Daily budget€95€181
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 5 points.5
KotorRotterdam
Score6156
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorRotterdam
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 0 m
€257-300
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 47 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

MeasureKotorRotterdam
Official languageMontenegrinDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorRotterdam
City population562664,311
People per km²–2,080
Museums within 10 km340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre2777
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. 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.