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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Kotor or San Miguel de Allende?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Kotor leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, San Miguel de Allende 40: Kotor leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, San Miguel de Allende 32: Kotor leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Kotor and San Miguel de Allende are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, San Miguel de Allende 50: Kotor leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness and shopping 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 Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,900 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSan Miguel de Allende
City population56269,811
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.