VacationSelector

Lucerne or Mostar?

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

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

LucerneMostar
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Mostar are level on 0.
LucerneMostar
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km167
Coast distance669 km44 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 28 points.28
LucerneMostar
Score4719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km259
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 4 points.4
LucerneMostar
Score4036
Museums within 10 km2313
Museums within 2 km of centre1312
Share of museums within 2 km %5792
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Lucerne leads by 6 points.6
LucerneMostar
Score2822
Drinking venues within 4 km202154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7595
Nightclubs within 4 km118
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 16 points.16
LucerneMostar
Score259
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 23 points.23
LucerneMostar
Score3815
Tourist attractions within 2 km1510
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Mostar leads by 1 points.1
LucerneMostar
Score3536
Notable places within 2 km2931
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 53 points.53
LucerneMostar
Score3588
Price level global110.537.4
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 8 points.8
LucerneMostar
Score5361
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneMostar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 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

MeasureLucerneMostar
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
Elevation436 m60 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneMostar
City population86,234105,448
People per km²2,96390
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4618

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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.