VacationSelector

Palermo or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PalermoSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoSarajevo
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
PalermoSarajevo
Score5038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1317
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSarajevo
Score5052
Museums within 10 km3238
Museums within 2 km of centre2633
Share of museums within 2 km %8187
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
PalermoSarajevo
Score5341
Drinking venues within 4 km799416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6470
Nightclubs within 4 km1611
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
PalermoSarajevo
Score3620
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
PalermoSarajevo
Score4136
Tourist attractions within 2 km1616
Park area within 2 km63 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 4 points.4
PalermoSarajevo
Score5761
Notable places within 2 km104131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 20 points.20
PalermoSarajevo
Score6888
Price level global64.937.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
PalermoSarajevo
Score7760
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months70
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
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. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoSarajevo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasurePalermoSarajevo
Official languageItalianCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m518 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSarajevo
City population630,167275,524
People per km²3,9241,947
Museums within 10 km4224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3335
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. 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.