VacationSelector

Bath or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

BathSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathSarajevo
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance29 km120 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathSarajevo
Score4638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
BathSarajevo
Score4752
Museums within 10 km2038
Museums within 2 km of centre1433
Share of museums within 2 km %7087
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
BathSarajevo
Score3641
Drinking venues within 4 km320416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km1111
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 24 points.24
BathSarajevo
Score4420
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %271
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathSarajevo
Score4036
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km45 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 29 points.29
BathSarajevo
Score3261
Notable places within 2 km25131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
BathSarajevo
Score5488
Price level global84.937.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
BathSarajevo
Score5560
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSarajevo
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 148 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
9 h 10 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathSarajevo
Official languageEnglishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m518 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSarajevo
City population94,092275,524
People per km²3,2451,947
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3835
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.