VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

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

Sarajevo
44
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.

CopenhagenSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 35 points.35
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3717
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score7552
Museums within 10 km8338
Museums within 2 km of centre5133
Share of museums within 2 km %6187
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score6741
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5870
Nightclubs within 4 km6411
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score5020
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 35 points.35
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score7136
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km138 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km273131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 36 points.36
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score5288
Price level global87.837.4
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenSarajevo
Score5560
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months30
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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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 45 m
€143-174
CPH · 8 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 144 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCopenhagenSarajevo
Official languageDanishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m518 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSarajevo
City population667,099275,524
People per km²7,3391,947
Museums within 10 km7224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8235
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.