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La Spezia or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Spezia
43
match

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

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

La SpeziaSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance0 km120 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score3138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1117
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score4252
Museums within 10 km1538
Museums within 2 km of centre1033
Share of museums within 2 km %6787
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 17 points.17
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score2441
Drinking venues within 4 km208416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8570
Nightclubs within 4 km111
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 32 points.32
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score5220
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 16 points.16
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score2036
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km23 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 54 points.54
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score761
Notable places within 2 km6131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 20 points.20
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score6888
Price level global64.937.4
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaSarajevo
Score7060
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months20
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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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaSarajevo
Official languageItalianCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m518 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaSarajevo
City population92,119275,524
People per km²1,7921,947
Museums within 10 km1224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2235
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.