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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kotor or Yogyakarta?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Kotor leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, Yogyakarta 72: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, Yogyakarta 35: Kotor leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Kotor
45match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKotorYogyakarta
Official languageMontenegrinIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m113 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKotorYogyakarta
City population562422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.