Changelog

The page reads the hourly forecast for the hill and shows the cool, dry hours to go up. On days the Port of Kotor lists cruise ships, it also shows how many are alongside, the hours, and whether the cool window ends before the first one ties up. It does not guess how many people are on the stairs, because the port does not publish that.

Set how often you drive west to Herceg Novi, and your own car, and the page works out what each way costs on this week's fuel price. The answer is not the one most people expect: from Kotor the ferry saves 13.6 km — about €1.60 of petrol — and charges €5.00 a car each way to do it, so the road through Perast and Risan is the cheaper way. What the crossing buys is roughly twelve minutes, and only on a day without a queue. The often-repeated 'the ferry saves you thirty kilometres' is a Tivat figure, and the page says so.

The Kotor Year now shows the organiser's confirmed 2026 date for Boka Night — Saturday 22 August — instead of a general late-August estimate.

A live feed of what's actually been recorded in and around the Bay lately, from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre — with the story of the 1979 earthquake and tsunami, and who to call if the ground shakes.

The Old Town has lost its bookshops, its ordinary retail and its craft workshops to souvenir shops, and residents have said so for years. This page is the other half of that: the bakeries, pharmacies, repair shops and stationers still trading, in the walls and in Škaljari, Dobrota, Muo and Prčanj — added and voted for by the people who use them. Signing in is needed to add a place or vote.

You can now sign up on the ships-in-port page for one email, about two days ahead, for each of the days the port's plan puts in its fullest band — four ships or more. It is one email per day announced, and one more if another ship is added to a day you have already been told about. No account needed, and you can stop at any time.

How many ships are in the bay today and this week, when their passengers are ashore, whether each one ties up at the pier or anchors out and lands people by tender, and which days ahead are the fullest. It reads the Port of Kotor's published arrivals spreadsheet directly, so it follows the port rather than anyone retyping it. The port publishes each ship's size and not its passenger list, so the page tells you how many ships and how big — it does not put a number on how many people come ashore.

A simple calendar of the Boka's recurring days — Tripundan (St Tryphon's feast in February), the winter carnival, Fašinada in Perast on the evening of 22 July, KotorArt through the summer, and Bokeljska noć in late August. It always shows what's next and how many days away it is, and links the organisers for exact hours and each year's programme. The dates are worked out fresh each time, so the list never goes out of date.

A colored-pencil banner of Kotor's Old Town at the head of the bay — St. Tryphon's twin towers by the water and the Venetian ramparts climbing St. John's hill to the fortress above.

When the summer shortage hits and the tap runs dry, residents can tap their settlement to report it and see whether it's just their tank or the whole sector — with where the water comes from, why it turns salty, and who to call.

Kotor's first tools are up. The Water Status board lets residents report, settlement by settlement, where the tap is off during the summer shortage — with the two-spring salinity story and the ViK line to call. Alongside it: a live read of how the Bay of Kotor is for a swim, and a tappable directory of the town's services and emergency numbers.