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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Santiago de Compostela?

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

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Santiago de Compostela 62: Kotor leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Kotor and Santiago de Compostela are level on 72.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Santiago de Compostela 35: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Santiago de Compostela.

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.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorSantiago de Compostela
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish
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
Elevation10 m260 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSantiago de Compostela
City population562100,965
People per km²-459
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.