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Interlaken or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
44
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Sarajevo are level on 0.
InterlakenSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance713 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sarajevo leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenSarajevo
Score2938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1717
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 29 points.29
InterlakenSarajevo
Score2352
Museums within 10 km538
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %4087
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenSarajevo
Score441
Drinking venues within 4 km42416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9070
Nightclubs within 4 km311
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 7 points.7
InterlakenSarajevo
Score2720
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 22 points.22
InterlakenSarajevo
Score1436
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km5 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 39 points.39
InterlakenSarajevo
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 53 points.53
InterlakenSarajevo
Score3588
Price level global110.537.4
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
InterlakenSarajevo
Score5760
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureInterlakenSarajevo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m518 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenSarajevo
City population6,123275,524
People per km²1,4241,947
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2235

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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). 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.