VacationSelector

New York or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

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

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

New YorkSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkSarajevo
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 57 points.57
New YorkSarajevo
Score9538
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3817
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 8 points.8
New YorkSarajevo
Score6052
Museums within 10 km11938
Museums within 2 km of centre3133
Share of museums within 2 km %2687
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 48 points.48
New YorkSarajevo
Score8941
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4870
Nightclubs within 4 km19211
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 19 points.19
New YorkSarajevo
Score3920
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 36 points.36
New YorkSarajevo
Score7236
Tourist attractions within 2 km3716
Park area within 2 km134 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 13 points.13
New YorkSarajevo
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km268131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
New YorkSarajevo
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
New YorkSarajevo
Score5860
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkSarajevo
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureNew YorkSarajevo
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)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
Elevation25 m518 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkSarajevo
City population8,804,190275,524
People per km²7,2561,947
Museums within 10 km15724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13235
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.