VacationSelector

Bucharest or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BucharestSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Sarajevo are level on 0.
BucharestSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 29 points.29
BucharestSarajevo
Score6738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4117
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
BucharestSarajevo
Score4952
Museums within 10 km7338
Museums within 2 km of centre4033
Share of museums within 2 km %5587
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 21 points.21
BucharestSarajevo
Score6241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5370
Nightclubs within 4 km8011
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 16 points.16
BucharestSarajevo
Score3620
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 32 points.32
BucharestSarajevo
Score6836
Tourist attractions within 2 km4516
Park area within 2 km133 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest and Sarajevo are level on 61.
BucharestSarajevo
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km130131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
BucharestSarajevo
Score8588
Price level global40.937.4
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BucharestSarajevo
Score6360
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months10
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBucharestSarajevo
Official languageRomanianCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)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
Elevation70 m518 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSarajevo
City population1,716,961275,524
People per km²7,5971,947
Museums within 10 km4124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6835

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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). 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.