VacationSelector

Lucerne or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LucerneSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Sarajevo are level on 0.
LucerneSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance669 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 9 points.9
LucerneSarajevo
Score4738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2517
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 12 points.12
LucerneSarajevo
Score4052
Museums within 10 km2338
Museums within 2 km of centre1333
Share of museums within 2 km %5787
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 13 points.13
LucerneSarajevo
Score2841
Drinking venues within 4 km202416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km1111
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
LucerneSarajevo
Score2520
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 2 points.2
LucerneSarajevo
Score3836
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km29 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 26 points.26
LucerneSarajevo
Score3561
Notable places within 2 km29131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 53 points.53
LucerneSarajevo
Score3588
Price level global110.537.4
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
LucerneSarajevo
Score5360
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm66 mm to 91 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
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sarajevo
9
10
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
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
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

MeasureLucerneSarajevo
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 m518 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneSarajevo
City population86,234275,524
People per km²2,9631,947
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4635

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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.