VacationSelector

Cork or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CorkSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkSarajevo
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance3 km120 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 12 points.12
CorkSarajevo
Score5038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 29 points.29
CorkSarajevo
Score2352
Museums within 10 km1038
Museums within 2 km of centre833
Share of museums within 2 km %8087
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
CorkSarajevo
Score3841
Drinking venues within 4 km361416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8170
Nightclubs within 4 km911
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 32 points.32
CorkSarajevo
Score5220
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 9 points.9
CorkSarajevo
Score2736
Tourist attractions within 2 km716
Park area within 2 km48 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 39 points.39
CorkSarajevo
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 31 points.31
CorkSarajevo
Score5788
Price level global80.237.4
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 11 points.11
CorkSarajevo
Score4960
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 144 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 10 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

MeasureCorkSarajevo
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m518 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSarajevo
City population222,333275,524
People per km²5,9611,947
Museums within 10 km524
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4935
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). 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.