VacationSelector

Kotor or Sydney?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

KotorSydney
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
KotorSydney
Score7760
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km50160
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 52 points.52
KotorSydney
Score2678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre712,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
KotorSydney
Score2851
Museums within 10 km744
Museums within 2 km of centre320
Share of museums within 2 km %4345
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 71 points.71
KotorSydney
Score475
Drinking venues within 4 km462,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre381,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8369
Nightclubs within 4 km3120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
KotorSydney
Score1558
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6652
Park area within 2 km2 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 55 points.55
KotorSydney
Score964
Tourist attractions within 2 km837
Park area within 2 km2 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 39 points.39
KotorSydney
Score2160
Notable places within 2 km13123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 37 points.37
KotorSydney
Score8750
Price level global38.990.2
Daily budget€95—
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
KotorSydney
Score6181
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months10
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKotorSydney
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKotorSydney
Official languageMontenegrinEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSydney
City population5625,450,496
People per km²–449
Museums within 10 km338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2779
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 months

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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.