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Hamburg or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

HamburgSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Sarajevo are level on 0.
HamburgSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance22 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 35 points.35
HamburgSarajevo
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3817
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 8 points.8
HamburgSarajevo
Score6052
Museums within 10 km9438
Museums within 2 km of centre5033
Share of museums within 2 km %5387
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 27 points.27
HamburgSarajevo
Score6841
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6270
Nightclubs within 4 km11911
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 20 points.20
HamburgSarajevo
Score4020
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %101
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
HamburgSarajevo
Score6036
Tourist attractions within 2 km4016
Park area within 2 km89 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
HamburgSarajevo
Score5961
Notable places within 2 km118131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 28 points.28
HamburgSarajevo
Score6088
Price level global75.937.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
HamburgSarajevo
Score5560
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months10
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 144 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 0 m
€183-188
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
5 h 15 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

MeasureHamburgSarajevo
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
Elevation6 m518 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgSarajevo
City population1,910,160275,524
People per km²2,5301,947
Museums within 10 km7724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8335

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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.