VacationSelector

Manchester or Mostar?

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

Your match

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

ManchesterMostar
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
ManchesterMostar
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km107
Coast distance27 km44 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 49 points.49
ManchesterMostar
Score6819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km359
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterMostar
Score4236
Museums within 10 km2313
Museums within 2 km of centre1112
Share of museums within 2 km %4892
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 40 points.40
ManchesterMostar
Score6222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7795
Nightclubs within 4 km828
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 27 points.27
ManchesterMostar
Score369
Protected land share 50 km %176
Landscape blanket share 50 km %171
Land share of disc %9999
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 17 points.17
ManchesterMostar
Score3215
Tourist attractions within 2 km510
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 12 points.12
ManchesterMostar
Score4836
Notable places within 2 km6131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 34 points.34
ManchesterMostar
Score5488
Price level global84.937.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 7 points.7
ManchesterMostar
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterMostar
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
Kuwait CityKWI
6 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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

MeasureManchesterMostar
Official languageEnglishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m60 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterMostar
City population547,627105,448
People per km²4,73790
Museums within 10 km283
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6318
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.