VacationSelector

Marseille or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

MarseilleSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarseilleSarajevo
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km640
Coast distance0 km120 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 37 points.37
MarseilleSarajevo
Score7538
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3917
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
MarseilleSarajevo
Score5052
Museums within 10 km3338
Museums within 2 km of centre2333
Share of museums within 2 km %7087
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 7 points.7
MarseilleSarajevo
Score4841
Drinking venues within 4 km544416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km3011
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 17 points.17
MarseilleSarajevo
Score3720
Protected land share 50 km %152
Landscape blanket share 50 km %131
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km25 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleSarajevo
Score4436
Tourist attractions within 2 km1716
Park area within 2 km25 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 3 points.3
MarseilleSarajevo
Score5861
Notable places within 2 km111131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 26 points.26
MarseilleSarajevo
Score6288
Price level global73.737.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 15 points.15
MarseilleSarajevo
Score7560
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months60
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
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
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. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleSarajevo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 118 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
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

MeasureMarseilleSarajevo
Official languageFrenchCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m518 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleSarajevo
City population886,040275,524
People per km²3,6831,947
Museums within 10 km2724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre9335
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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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). 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.