VacationSelector

Dresden or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

DresdenSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Sarajevo are level on 0.
DresdenSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 23 points.23
DresdenSarajevo
Score6138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4217
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenSarajevo
Score5452
Museums within 10 km6638
Museums within 2 km of centre3433
Share of museums within 2 km %5287
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenSarajevo
Score4241
Drinking venues within 4 km359416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km4311
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
DresdenSarajevo
Score3920
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %91
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 23 points.23
DresdenSarajevo
Score5936
Tourist attractions within 2 km3216
Park area within 2 km80 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 8 points.8
DresdenSarajevo
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km82131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 28 points.28
DresdenSarajevo
Score6088
Price level global75.937.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenSarajevo
Score6260
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months40
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenSarajevo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 15 m
€205-234
PRG · 112 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 147 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
DRS · 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDresdenSarajevo
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
Elevation126 m518 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenSarajevo
City population564,904275,524
People per km²1,7201,947
Museums within 10 km7024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7735

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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.