VacationSelector

Cologne or Mostar?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

CologneMostar
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Mostar are level on 0.
CologneMostar
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km407
Coast distance256 km44 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 53 points.53
CologneMostar
Score7219
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km359
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 24 points.24
CologneMostar
Score6036
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre2712
Share of museums within 2 km %5792
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 42 points.42
CologneMostar
Score6422
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6695
Nightclubs within 4 km908
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 62 points.62
CologneMostar
Score719
Protected land share 50 km %536
Landscape blanket share 50 km %521
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 57 points.57
CologneMostar
Score7215
Tourist attractions within 2 km4310
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneMostar
Score5336
Notable places within 2 km8131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 28 points.28
CologneMostar
Score6088
Price level global75.937.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 1 points.1
CologneMostar
Score6061
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneMostar
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 95 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
IzmirADB
3 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€162-182
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneMostar
Official languageGermanCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m60 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneMostar
City population1,024,621105,448
People per km²2,53090
Museums within 10 km403
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8418

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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). 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.