VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

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

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km120 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 45 points.45
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score8338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4417
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score8052
Museums within 10 km9838
Museums within 2 km of centre6933
Share of museums within 2 km %7087
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 29 points.29
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score7041
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7070
Nightclubs within 4 km11411
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score6020
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 32 points.32
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score6836
Tourist attractions within 2 km7416
Park area within 2 km49 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 7 points.7
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score6861
Notable places within 2 km196131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 30 points.30
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score5888
Price level global79.237.4
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamSarajevo
Score5760
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 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

MeasureAmsterdamSarajevo
Official languageDutchCroatian, 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 number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m518 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamSarajevo
City population921,468275,524
People per km²4,2081,947
Museums within 10 km10124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9835
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.