VacationSelector

Reykjavik 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

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

ReykjavikSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance0 km120 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 11 points.11
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score4938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2917
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score5052
Museums within 10 km3438
Museums within 2 km of centre2333
Share of museums within 2 km %6887
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 14 points.14
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score2741
Drinking venues within 4 km192416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km1011
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 39 points.39
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score5920
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score4236
Tourist attractions within 2 km2116
Park area within 2 km28 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km61131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 47 points.47
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score4188
Price level global102.837.4
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 23 points.23
ReykjavikSarajevo
Score3760
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
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. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikSarajevo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 35 m
€268-383
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 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

MeasureReykjavikSarajevo
Official languageIcelandicCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m518 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikSarajevo
City population138,772275,524
People per km²5691,947
Museums within 10 km2324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4235
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.