Best Anchorages in Tivat Bay & Porto Montenegro

The free anchorage on the SE side of Tivat Bay — off the town quay and clear of the shellfish farms — is the best-protected free anchorage in Montenegro and one of the finest in the entire Adriatic.

The free anchorage outside Porto Montenegro's fairway is one of the most strategically useful anchorages in Montenegro — close enough to use all of Porto Montenegro's excellent shore facilities (fuel dock, WiFi, restaurants, laundry, chandlery) by dinghy, but without paying berth fees that can reach €100–€500+/night for a standard yacht depending on LOA and season.

Kalimanj is a small bay on the S shore of Tivat Bay, immediately W of Porto Montenegro and tucked in behind a low promontory that gives it a quiet, enclosed character quite different from the busier Tivat town anchorage to the NE.

Krtole is a small village on the SE shore of the Lustica Peninsula, on the outer S side of the Tivat Bay entrance area.

Bigova is the standout pre-Bora refuge for the entire Tivat area — a compact, sheltered cove tucked into the SE Montenegrin coast on the outer side of the Lustica Peninsula, approximately 5nm SE of Tivat by sea and therefore technically outside Tivat Bay proper.

The W-facing coves of the Lustica Peninsula are accessible only by water — no road reaches this part of the peninsula — and they represent the wildest, most undeveloped coastline in the Tivat area.

Rose (shown as Roso on some charts) is a small Venetian-era village perched on a low promontory on the NE shore of Tivat Bay, just SE of the Verige Strait entrance.

Opatovo is one of those forgotten spots that the charter crowd — fixated on Tivat town, Porto Montenegro, and the well-known anchorages — misses entirely.

Donja Lastva is a local Montenegrin fishing village on the E shore of Tivat Bay, near the Lepetane ferry crossing — one of those anchorages visited almost exclusively by independent sailors who have taken the time to explore beyond the well-known stops.

Pržno on the Lustica coast is a small sandy bay 2nm W of the Tivat Bay entrance — not to be confused with the more famous Pržno near Sveti Stefan on the Budva Riviera to the SE.