VacationSelector

Chicago or Mostar?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

ChicagoMostar
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
ChicagoMostar
Score530
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance10,000 km44 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 62 points.62
ChicagoMostar
Score8119
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km379
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoMostar
Score4636
Museums within 10 km4513
Museums within 2 km of centre2012
Share of museums within 2 km %4492
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 40 points.40
ChicagoMostar
Score6222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6595
Nightclubs within 4 km518
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 29 points.29
ChicagoMostar
Score389
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 40 points.40
ChicagoMostar
Score5515
Tourist attractions within 2 km1810
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 34 points.34
ChicagoMostar
Score7036
Notable places within 2 km21731
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 45 points.45
ChicagoMostar
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoMostar
Score5761
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoMostar
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
BelgradeBEG
10 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€192-309
1 stop
OMO · 7 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 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

MeasureChicagoMostar
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m60 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoMostar
City population2,746,388105,448
People per km²4,52990
Museums within 10 km433
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8718
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.