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Limassol 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, 2 points apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

LimassolSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolSarajevo
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 5 points.5
LimassolSarajevo
Score4338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1917
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 8 points.8
LimassolSarajevo
Score4452
Museums within 10 km1738
Museums within 2 km of centre1033
Share of museums within 2 km %5987
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
LimassolSarajevo
Score3941
Drinking venues within 4 km340416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km2011
Nature & day trips. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolSarajevo
Score2220
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 20 points.20
LimassolSarajevo
Score1636
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km32 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 47 points.47
LimassolSarajevo
Score1461
Notable places within 2 km9131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 18 points.18
LimassolSarajevo
Score7088
Price level global61.437.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 25 points.25
LimassolSarajevo
Score8560
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months80
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 5 m
€186-300
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
OMO · 78 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 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

MeasureLimassolSarajevo
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m518 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSarajevo
City population107,970275,524
People per km²2,4051,947
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2835
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.