VacationSelector

Nice or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

NiceSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NiceSarajevo
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km700
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 31 points.31
NiceSarajevo
Score6938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2817
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 6 points.6
NiceSarajevo
Score4652
Museums within 10 km2738
Museums within 2 km of centre1433
Share of museums within 2 km %5287
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Nice leads by 3 points.3
NiceSarajevo
Score4441
Drinking venues within 4 km428416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9170
Nightclubs within 4 km2611
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 37 points.37
NiceSarajevo
Score5720
Protected land share 50 km %242
Landscape blanket share 50 km %201
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 6 points.6
NiceSarajevo
Score3036
Tourist attractions within 2 km416
Park area within 2 km56 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 14 points.14
NiceSarajevo
Score4761
Notable places within 2 km60131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 26 points.26
NiceSarajevo
Score6288
Price level global73.737.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 14 points.14
NiceSarajevo
Score7460
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months30
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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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceSarajevo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
9 h 10 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

MeasureNiceSarajevo
Official languageFrenchCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m518 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceSarajevo
City population357,737275,524
People per km²4,9751,947
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6535
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.