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Visiting Kotor in February

BySunMed Guide

Visiting Kotor in February

Weather in February: Average high 12.1°C, 274.6mm rainfall.

# Kotor in February: Beautiful, Wet, and Blissfully Empty

Let me be straight with you: February in Kotor means rain. A lot of it. With nearly 275mm falling across the month, this is genuinely one of the wettest periods of the year in a city that already takes Mediterranean moisture seriously. You’ll have days where the clouds sit so low they swallow the fortress walls completely, and the cobblestones inside the old town become genuinely slippery. Pack accordingly or you’ll spend a fortune on overpriced umbrellas from the one gift shop that bothered to open.

That said, 12°C isn’t miserable. It’s jacket weather, not survival weather. And when the rain actually stops – which it does, sometimes for whole glorious afternoons – the Bay of Kotor looks almost aggressively dramatic. The mountains hold snow on their upper ridges, the water goes this deep slate green, and you have the entire medieval old town essentially to yourself. Yourself and approximately twelve other travellers who also did their research.

Because here’s the real February gift: no cruise ships. None. The passengers aren’t coming, the selfie-stick crowds aren’t blocking the squares, and restaurant owners will actually sit down and chat with you because they have the time. Most restaurants inside the old walls do stay open, though hours get unpredictable – call ahead or just wander and accept whatever’s unlocked. The fortress hike up to St John is absolutely doable and costs less in winter, and the views when it clears are genuinely worth the wet stone scramble.

Is it worth visiting? For photographers, slow travellers, couples, and anyone who finds summer Kotor overwhelming – absolutely yes. For people who need beach energy, guaranteed sunshine, or everything to be open and buzzing – wait until May.

**Practical tip:** Stay inside the old town walls rather than outside them. When it rains hard in the evening, you want to be able to duck into a konoba immediately, not trudging back across a wet square from your budget hotel near the bus station.

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