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Philadelphia or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Sarajevo are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance13 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 39 points.39
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score7738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score6052
Museums within 10 km8938
Museums within 2 km of centre4833
Share of museums within 2 km %5487
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score5941
Drinking venues within 4 km930416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6270
Nightclubs within 4 km4111
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 29 points.29
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score4920
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score5336
Tourist attractions within 2 km1616
Park area within 2 km75 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia and Sarajevo are level on 60.
PhiladelphiaSarajevo
Score6060
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSarajevo
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
Kuwait CityKWI
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSarajevo
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
Elevation12 m518 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSarajevo
City population1,603,797275,524
People per km²4,3391,947
Museums within 10 km5424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7535

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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). 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.