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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego
San DiegoThe Botanical Building, Balboa Park

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; San Diego by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or San Diego?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose San Diego for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Diego’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, San Diego 72: San Diego leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, San Diego 62: San Diego leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, San Diego 50: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, San Diego 48: San Diego leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, San Diego 77: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, San Diego 60: Kotor leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, San Diego 96: San Diego leads by 60 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, San Diego 38: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, San Diego 44: San Diego leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, San Diego 26: Kotor leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, San Diego 56: San Diego leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, San Diego 45: San Diego leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and San Diego.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

San Diego
Best match
56match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

San Diego in July

24 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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 centre42 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSan Diego
City population5621,386,932
People per km²-1,438
Museums within 10 km326
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.