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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Kotor or Victoria Falls?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Kotor leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Victoria Falls 24: Kotor leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Victoria Falls 12: Kotor leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Victoria Falls 8: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Victoria Falls 22: Kotor leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Victoria Falls 38: Victoria Falls leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Victoria Falls 45: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Victoria Falls 18: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Victoria Falls 32: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Victoria Falls 10: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Victoria Falls 34: Victoria Falls leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorVictoria Falls
Official languageMontenegrinEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m961 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorVictoria Falls
City population56233,060
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). 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.