VacationSelector

Cardiff or Mostar?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

CardiffMostar
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffMostar
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km87
Coast distance2 km44 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 41 points.41
CardiffMostar
Score6019
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km329
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
CardiffMostar
Score3936
Museums within 10 km6113
Museums within 2 km of centre612
Share of museums within 2 km %1092
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 26 points.26
CardiffMostar
Score4822
Drinking venues within 4 km536154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7495
Nightclubs within 4 km358
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 41 points.41
CardiffMostar
Score509
Protected land share 50 km %186
Landscape blanket share 50 km %151
Land share of disc %6899
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 17 points.17
CardiffMostar
Score3215
Tourist attractions within 2 km410
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 9 points.9
CardiffMostar
Score4536
Notable places within 2 km5131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 34 points.34
CardiffMostar
Score5488
Price level global84.937.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 7 points.7
CardiffMostar
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm54 mm to 198 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffMostar
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
ToulouseTLS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SPU · 124 km
SofiaSOF
3 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
OMO · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffMostar
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
Elevation41 m60 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffMostar
City population383,536105,448
People per km²2,73490
Museums within 10 km93
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5518
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.