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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Virginia Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Virginia Beach 42: Virginia Beach leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Virginia Beach 30: Kotor leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Virginia Beach 56: Kotor leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Virginia Beach 64: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Virginia Beach 27: Kotor leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Virginia Beach 40: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KotorVirginia Beach

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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKotorVirginia Beach
Official languageMontenegrin-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorVirginia Beach
City population562459,470
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.