VacationSelector

Maastricht or Mostar?

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

Your match

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
match

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

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MaastrichtMostar
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Mostar are level on 0.
MaastrichtMostar
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km67
Coast distance118 km44 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 29 points.29
MaastrichtMostar
Score4819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km229
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtMostar
Score5336
Museums within 10 km2313
Museums within 2 km of centre1312
Share of museums within 2 km %5792
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtMostar
Score3022
Drinking venues within 4 km223154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8295
Nightclubs within 4 km138
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtMostar
Score379
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km33 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 31 points.31
MaastrichtMostar
Score4615
Tourist attractions within 2 km1510
Park area within 2 km33 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Maastricht and Mostar are level on 36.
MaastrichtMostar
Score3636
Notable places within 2 km3231
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 30 points.30
MaastrichtMostar
Score5888
Price level global79.237.4
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtMostar
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtMostar
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
OMO · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtMostar
Official languageDutchCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m60 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtMostar
City population120,227105,448
People per km²2,00090
Museums within 10 km213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3318

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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). 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.