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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Kotor or Tangier?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Tangier for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Kotor leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Kotor and Tangier are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Tangier 55: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Kotor and Tangier are level on 72.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Tangier 35: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Tangier 40: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Tangier.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorTangier
Official languageMontenegrinArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorTangier
City population5621,275,428
People per km²-6,393
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.