VacationSelector

Kotor or San Jose?

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.

San Jose
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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 Jose
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 69 points.69
KotorSan Jose
Score778
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km501
Coast distance0 km14 km
Water distance0 km14 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 15 points.15
KotorSan Jose
Score2641
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1916
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 2 points.2
KotorSan Jose
Score2826
Museums within 10 km720
Museums within 2 km of centre39
Share of museums within 2 km %4345
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 27 points.27
KotorSan Jose
Score431
Drinking venues within 4 km46231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3888
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8338
Nightclubs within 4 km316
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 55 points.55
KotorSan Jose
Score1570
Protected land share 50 km %1026
Landscape blanket share 50 km %52
Land share of disc %6691
Park area within 2 km2 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. San Jose leads by 24 points.24
KotorSan Jose
Score933
Tourist attractions within 2 km82
Park area within 2 km2 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Kotor leads by 7 points.7
KotorSan Jose
Score2114
Notable places within 2 km139
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 44 points.44
KotorSan Jose
Score8743
Price level global38.9100
Daily budget€95—
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 24 points.24
KotorSan Jose
Score6185
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months18
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorSan Jose
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€94-124
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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

MeasureKotorSan Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSan Jose
City population5621,013,240
People per km²–2,167
Museums within 10 km319
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2730
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). 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.