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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Sapporo?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Kotor leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Sapporo 40: Kotor leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Sapporo 64: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorSapporo
Official languageMontenegrinJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSapporo
City population5621,959,313
People per km²-1,747
Museums within 10 km333
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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.