VacationSelector

Mostar or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

MostarRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
MostarRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance44 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 53 points.53
MostarRotterdam
Score1972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre117862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km946
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
MostarRotterdam
Score3660
Museums within 10 km1341
Museums within 2 km of centre1220
Share of museums within 2 km %9249
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
MostarRotterdam
Score2249
Drinking venues within 4 km154542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9570
Nightclubs within 4 km840
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 33 points.33
MostarRotterdam
Score942
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9979
Park area within 2 km7 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 47 points.47
MostarRotterdam
Score1562
Tourist attractions within 2 km1027
Park area within 2 km7 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
MostarRotterdam
Score3651
Notable places within 2 km3174
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 30 points.30
MostarRotterdam
Score8858
Price level global37.479.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 5 points.5
MostarRotterdam
Score6156
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm42 mm to 85 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMostarRotterdam
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 95 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 15 m
€140-185
RTM · 5 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

MeasureMostarRotterdam
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianDutch
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation60 m10 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarRotterdam
City population105,448664,311
People per km²902,080
Museums within 10 km340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre1877
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.