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London or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
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.

LondonSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. London and Sarajevo are level on 0.
LondonSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km470
Coast distance43 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 50 points.50
LondonSarajevo
Score8838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4017
Museums & heritage. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonSarajevo
Score7252
Museums within 10 km14838
Museums within 2 km of centre4933
Share of museums within 2 km %3387
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonSarajevo
Score9541
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4670
Nightclubs within 4 km31211
Nature & day trips. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonSarajevo
Score4020
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %141
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 39 points.39
LondonSarajevo
Score7536
Tourist attractions within 2 km8516
Park area within 2 km84 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 28 points.28
LondonSarajevo
Score8961
Notable places within 2 km649131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
LondonSarajevo
Score5488
Price level global84.937.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. London leads by 3 points.3
LondonSarajevo
Score6360
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSarajevo
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
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

MeasureLondonSarajevo
Official languageEnglishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m518 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSarajevo
City population8,799,728275,524
People per km²5,5981,947
Museums within 10 km21524
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre11635

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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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.