VacationSelector

Mostar or Valencia?

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 with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

MostarValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
MostarValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km712
Coast distance44 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 59 points.59
MostarValencia
Score1978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1171,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km933
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
MostarValencia
Score3655
Museums within 10 km1359
Museums within 2 km of centre1226
Share of museums within 2 km %9244
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 48 points.48
MostarValencia
Score2270
Drinking venues within 4 km1541,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9563
Nightclubs within 4 km8108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 44 points.44
MostarValencia
Score953
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9964
Park area within 2 km7 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 27 points.27
MostarValencia
Score1542
Tourist attractions within 2 km1012
Park area within 2 km7 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
MostarValencia
Score3652
Notable places within 2 km3178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 17 points.17
MostarValencia
Score8871
Price level global37.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
MostarValencia
Score6184
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMostarValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 95 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 133 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 133 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

MeasureMostarValencia
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianSpanish
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
Elevation60 m15 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarValencia
City population105,448840,792
People per km²906,242
Museums within 10 km346
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre1892
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.