VacationSelector

Alicante or Sarajevo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AlicanteSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteSarajevo
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteSarajevo
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3117
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteSarajevo
Score4252
Museums within 10 km1438
Museums within 2 km of centre1133
Share of museums within 2 km %7987
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteSarajevo
Score5141
Drinking venues within 4 km591416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km5411
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteSarajevo
Score4020
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteSarajevo
Score4236
Tourist attractions within 2 km1316
Park area within 2 km60 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 35 points.35
AlicanteSarajevo
Score2661
Notable places within 2 km18131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteSarajevo
Score7188
Price level global60.837.4
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteSarajevo
Score8760
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months110
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 15 m
€205-254
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 144 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

MeasureAlicanteSarajevo
Official languageSpanishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m518 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteSarajevo
City population366,221275,524
People per km²1,8191,947
Museums within 10 km824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5235
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. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.