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Calgary or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
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.

CalgarySarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Sarajevo are level on 0.
CalgarySarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance649 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 28 points.28
CalgarySarajevo
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3617
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 43 points.43
CalgarySarajevo
Score952
Museums within 10 km838
Museums within 2 km of centre333
Share of museums within 2 km %3887
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgarySarajevo
Score4441
Drinking venues within 4 km465416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km1911
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgarySarajevo
Score3620
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgarySarajevo
Score4136
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km142 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 22 points.22
CalgarySarajevo
Score3961
Notable places within 2 km37131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
CalgarySarajevo
Score5488
Price level global8437.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
CalgarySarajevo
Score5760
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgarySarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 144 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 144 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCalgarySarajevo
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m518 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgarySarajevo
City population1,306,784275,524
People per km²1,5831,947
Museums within 10 km1324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6735

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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). 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.