VacationSelector

Madrid or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

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

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MadridSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Sarajevo are level on 0.
MadridSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance305 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 45 points.45
MadridSarajevo
Score8338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2817
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 23 points.23
MadridSarajevo
Score7552
Museums within 10 km9738
Museums within 2 km of centre5933
Share of museums within 2 km %6187
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 40 points.40
MadridSarajevo
Score8141
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6270
Nightclubs within 4 km34111
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 43 points.43
MadridSarajevo
Score6320
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 41 points.41
MadridSarajevo
Score7736
Tourist attractions within 2 km6116
Park area within 2 km187 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 14 points.14
MadridSarajevo
Score7561
Notable places within 2 km288131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 17 points.17
MadridSarajevo
Score7188
Price level global60.837.4
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 12 points.12
MadridSarajevo
Score7260
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridSarajevo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureMadridSarajevo
Official languageSpanishCroatian, 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 number112112
Elevation663 m518 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridSarajevo
City population3,506,730275,524
People per km²5,8011,947
Museums within 10 km8824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre10635

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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.