VacationSelector

Kotor or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Zagreb
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Kotor if the trip is built around swimming: 50 beaches within reach and five months when the sea sits at 21°C or more, with warmer daytime highs right across the year.

Choose Zagreb if the evening matters, with far more bars, clubs and restaurants than Kotor, and a centre where the notable places sit close enough together to walk between them.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KotorZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 77 points.77
KotorZagreb
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km508
Coast distance0 km117 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Zagreb leads by 26 points.26
KotorZagreb
Score2652
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 17 points.17
KotorZagreb
Score2845
Museums within 10 km741
Museums within 2 km of centre340
Share of museums within 2 km %4398
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 57 points.57
KotorZagreb
Score461
Drinking venues within 4 km461,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km363
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 19 points.19
KotorZagreb
Score1534
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %66100
Park area within 2 km2 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Zagreb leads by 19 points.19
KotorZagreb
Score928
Tourist attractions within 2 km87
Park area within 2 km2 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 39 points.39
KotorZagreb
Score2160
Notable places within 2 km13122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 7 points.7
KotorZagreb
Score8780
Price level global38.948.5
Daily budget€95€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
KotorZagreb
Score6162
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months10
0255075100

Where they differ

Kotor is the one with a coast: 50 beaches nearby against Zagreb's 8, and five months when the sea holds at 21°C or more, which Zagreb never manages. What nightlife it has is concentrated by the centre, so evenings need no planning.

Zagreb has many times as many bars and clubs, with about half of them near the centre, and many times as many restaurants close in, with a somewhat wider range of kitchens. It also packs many times as many notable places into walking distance of the centre.

Where they are alike

Both run the same shape of year, with January the coolest month in each and summer the peak. Kotor gets 2412 hours of sunshine a year against Zagreb's 1999.

Heritage counts in both, in different forms: Kotor has 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, Zagreb many times as many museums, packed near the centre. The national price estimates behind them are €95 a day for Kotor's country and €138 for Zagreb's.

Which traveller are you?

If you are going for the water, Kotor: 50 beaches nearby and the sea at 26°C in August, where Zagreb has no swimming season to speak of.

If the evening is the point, Zagreb: many times as many bars and clubs, many times as many restaurants near the centre, and a somewhat wider range of kitchens. Kotor's handful sits by the centre but stays a handful.

Families are the better served in Zagreb, which has far more park space near the centre. The two have about as many tourist attractions each, and neither has a theme park within reach.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €95 for Kotor's country and €138 for Zagreb's, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A small coastal town and a capital can each sit well away from their own national average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so neither number tells you what your own days will cost.

Kotor's beach strength peaks exactly when everyone else's does: July and August are its driest and hottest, at 33°C, in a town with a very small resident population. The sea stays warm into autumn, but September brings 173mm of rain.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Kotor is at its best in May and June, with highs of 24-30°C and the sea already at 19-23°C. July and August are the driest months, 38mm and 54mm, and the sea reaches 26°C, though days climb to 33°C. Autumn turns heavy, 173mm in September and 256mm by November.

Zagreb holds up from June to August, highs of 27-29°C, though rain runs 85-90mm through those months. September is its wettest at 104mm, and winter days stay cool.

Getting there

Flying fromKotorZagreb
BelgradeBEG
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€152
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureKotorZagreb
Official languageMontenegrinCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m127 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorZagreb
City population562767,131
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2742
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.