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Buenos Aires or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

Buenos AiresSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance2 km120 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.29
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score6738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score6652
Museums within 10 km14838
Museums within 2 km of centre7133
Share of museums within 2 km %4887
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score6841
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6070
Nightclubs within 4 km16011
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score4320
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score6936
Tourist attractions within 2 km4916
Park area within 2 km69 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km125131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score8288
Price level global45.837.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresSarajevo
Score7560
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresSarajevo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBuenos AiresSarajevo
Official languageSpanishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m518 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSarajevo
City population3,121,707275,524
People per km²15,3551,947
Museums within 10 km7524
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5535
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.