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Berlin or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BerlinSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Sarajevo are level on 0.
BerlinSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance142 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BerlinSarajevo
Score7038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3317
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinSarajevo
Score7952
Museums within 10 km20038
Museums within 2 km of centre8133
Share of museums within 2 km %4187
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 35 points.35
BerlinSarajevo
Score7641
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3470
Nightclubs within 4 km13511
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BerlinSarajevo
Score4920
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 40 points.40
BerlinSarajevo
Score7636
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km141 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinSarajevo
Score8461
Notable places within 2 km486131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 28 points.28
BerlinSarajevo
Score6088
Price level global75.937.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin and Sarajevo are level on 60.
BerlinSarajevo
Score6060
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months30
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 0 m
€156-196
1 stop
BER · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
3 h 25 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

MeasureBerlinSarajevo
Official languageGermanCroatian, 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
Elevation34 m518 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSarajevo
City population3,782,202275,524
People per km²4,2441,947
Museums within 10 km15824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8635

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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. 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.