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Mexico City or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Sarajevo
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.

Mexico CitySarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Sarajevo are level on 0.
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance247 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1517
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score7952
Museums within 10 km13838
Museums within 2 km of centre6533
Share of museums within 2 km %4787
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score7841
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4370
Nightclubs within 4 km19811
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 43 points.43
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score6320
Protected land share 50 km %302
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score5036
Tourist attractions within 2 km2316
Park area within 2 km32 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score7688
Price level global54.237.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
Mexico CitySarajevo
Score9060
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 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

MeasureMexico CitySarajevo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m518 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySarajevo
City population9,209,944275,524
People per km²6,2021,947
Museums within 10 km10824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5035

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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). 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.