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Maastricht or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

MaastrichtSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Sarajevo are level on 0.
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance118 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score4838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score5352
Museums within 10 km2338
Museums within 2 km of centre1333
Share of museums within 2 km %5787
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score3041
Drinking venues within 4 km223416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8270
Nightclubs within 4 km1311
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score3720
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score4636
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km33 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 25 points.25
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score3661
Notable places within 2 km32131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 30 points.30
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score5888
Price level global79.237.4
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtSarajevo
Score5960
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sarajevo
9
10
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
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
OMO · 78 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 40 m
€86-130
1 stop
DBV · 144 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

MeasureMaastrichtSarajevo
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 m518 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSarajevo
City population120,227275,524
People per km²2,0001,947
Museums within 10 km2124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3335

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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.