VacationSelector

Athens or Mostar?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on 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.

AthensMostar
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensMostar
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km147
Coast distance6 km44 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 50 points.50
AthensMostar
Score6919
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km259
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensMostar
Score7336
Museums within 10 km12213
Museums within 2 km of centre7812
Share of museums within 2 km %6492
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 59 points.59
AthensMostar
Score8122
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5095
Nightclubs within 4 km1368
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 36 points.36
AthensMostar
Score459
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5099
Park area within 2 km128 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 56 points.56
AthensMostar
Score7115
Tourist attractions within 2 km6810
Park area within 2 km128 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 39 points.39
AthensMostar
Score7536
Notable places within 2 km29131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 14 points.14
AthensMostar
Score7488
Price level global55.837.4
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensMostar
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensMostar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€152-215
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 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

MeasureAthensMostar
Official languageGreekCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m60 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensMostar
City population643,452105,448
People per km²16,49990
Museums within 10 km883
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8218
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.