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Portland or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PortlandSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Portland and Sarajevo are level on 0.
PortlandSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance69 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 36 points.36
PortlandSarajevo
Score7438
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4417
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 17 points.17
PortlandSarajevo
Score3552
Museums within 10 km2338
Museums within 2 km of centre1533
Share of museums within 2 km %6587
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Portland leads by 17 points.17
PortlandSarajevo
Score5841
Drinking venues within 4 km942416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5570
Nightclubs within 4 km3211
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 15 points.15
PortlandSarajevo
Score3520
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %31
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km37 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
PortlandSarajevo
Score3436
Tourist attractions within 2 km816
Park area within 2 km37 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 26 points.26
PortlandSarajevo
Score3561
Notable places within 2 km29131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
PortlandSarajevo
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 5 points.5
PortlandSarajevo
Score6560
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months30
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
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. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasurePortlandSarajevo
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m518 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandSarajevo
City population652,503275,524
People per km²1,7361,947
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre8235

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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.