VacationSelector

Kotor or San Diego?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
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.

KotorSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 14 points.14
KotorSan Diego
Score7763
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km5042
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 37 points.37
KotorSan Diego
Score2663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 16 points.16
KotorSan Diego
Score2844
Museums within 10 km759
Museums within 2 km of centre330
Share of museums within 2 km %4351
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 46 points.46
KotorSan Diego
Score450
Drinking venues within 4 km46615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8366
Nightclubs within 4 km331
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 40 points.40
KotorSan Diego
Score1555
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6652
Park area within 2 km2 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 66 points.66
KotorSan Diego
Score975
Tourist attractions within 2 km840
Park area within 2 km2 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 19 points.19
KotorSan Diego
Score2140
Notable places within 2 km1340
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 44 points.44
KotorSan Diego
Score8743
Price level global38.9100
Daily budget€95
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 27 points.27
KotorSan Diego
Score6188
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months19
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorSan Diego
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureKotorSan Diego
Official languageMontenegrin
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m129 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSan Diego
City population5621,386,932
People per km²1,438
Museums within 10 km326
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2744
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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). 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.