VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

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

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

Los AngelesSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km00
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 28 points.28
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score4952
Museums within 10 km6938
Museums within 2 km of centre2333
Share of museums within 2 km %3387
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score5441
Drinking venues within 4 km660416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6570
Nightclubs within 4 km6411
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 42 points.42
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score6220
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score3336
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km20 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesSarajevo
Score8760
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HelsinkiHEL
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureLos AngelesSarajevo
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m518 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSarajevo
City population3,898,747275,524
People per km²2,9941,947
Museums within 10 km3824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4635
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.