VacationSelector

Montreal or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MontrealSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Sarajevo are level on 0.
MontrealSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance276 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 36 points.36
MontrealSarajevo
Score7438
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4917
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 15 points.15
MontrealSarajevo
Score3752
Museums within 10 km3938
Museums within 2 km of centre1933
Share of museums within 2 km %4987
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 21 points.21
MontrealSarajevo
Score6241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4970
Nightclubs within 4 km7411
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
MontrealSarajevo
Score3620
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
MontrealSarajevo
Score5036
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km189 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 5 points.5
MontrealSarajevo
Score5661
Notable places within 2 km98131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
MontrealSarajevo
Score5488
Price level global8437.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 10 points.10
MontrealSarajevo
Score5060
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 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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A
M
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
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. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
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

MeasureMontrealSarajevo
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m518 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSarajevo
City population1,895,211275,524
People per km²3,8061,947
Museums within 10 km3724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9735

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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.