VacationSelector

Cologne or Sarajevo?

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.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

CologneSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Sarajevo are level on 0.
CologneSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km400
Coast distance256 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
CologneSarajevo
Score7238
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 8 points.8
CologneSarajevo
Score6052
Museums within 10 km4738
Museums within 2 km of centre2733
Share of museums within 2 km %5787
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 23 points.23
CologneSarajevo
Score6441
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km9011
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 51 points.51
CologneSarajevo
Score7120
Protected land share 50 km %532
Landscape blanket share 50 km %521
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 36 points.36
CologneSarajevo
Score7236
Tourist attractions within 2 km4316
Park area within 2 km118 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 8 points.8
CologneSarajevo
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km81131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 28 points.28
CologneSarajevo
Score6088
Price level global75.937.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Cologne and Sarajevo are level on 60.
CologneSarajevo
Score6060
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
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
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneSarajevo
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 144 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SJJ · 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCologneSarajevo
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 m518 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneSarajevo
City population1,024,621275,524
People per km²2,5301,947
Museums within 10 km4024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8435

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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.