VacationSelector

Dubai or Mostar?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money 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.

DubaiMostar
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiMostar
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance0 km44 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 47 points.47
DubaiMostar
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km269
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 2 points.2
DubaiMostar
Score3836
Museums within 10 km2613
Museums within 2 km of centre1812
Share of museums within 2 km %6992
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 31 points.31
DubaiMostar
Score5322
Drinking venues within 4 km601154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5195
Nightclubs within 4 km848
Nature & day trips. Dubai leads by 9 points.9
DubaiMostar
Score189
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5299
Park area within 2 km13 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 34 points.34
DubaiMostar
Score4915
Tourist attractions within 2 km3710
Park area within 2 km13 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiMostar
Score3736
Notable places within 2 km3331
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 19 points.19
DubaiMostar
Score6988
Price level global63.437.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 5 points.5
DubaiMostar
Score6661
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months120
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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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiMostar
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
Kuwait CityKWI
1 h 40 m
€129-158
DXB · 7 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
5 h 35 m
€244-282
DXB · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
JeddahJED
2 h 40 m
€154-180
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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

MeasureDubaiMostar
Official languageArabicCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m60 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiMostar
City population3,944,751105,448
People per km²90
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5218
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.