VacationSelector

San Diego or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

San DiegoSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
San DiegoSarajevo
Score630
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoSarajevo
Score6338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2717
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 8 points.8
San DiegoSarajevo
Score4452
Museums within 10 km5938
Museums within 2 km of centre3033
Share of museums within 2 km %5187
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
San DiegoSarajevo
Score5041
Drinking venues within 4 km615416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km3111
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 35 points.35
San DiegoSarajevo
Score5520
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km308 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 39 points.39
San DiegoSarajevo
Score7536
Tourist attractions within 2 km4016
Park area within 2 km308 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 21 points.21
San DiegoSarajevo
Score4061
Notable places within 2 km40131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
San DiegoSarajevo
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 28 points.28
San DiegoSarajevo
Score8860
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months90
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 144 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSan DiegoSarajevo
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
Elevation129 m518 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoSarajevo
City population1,386,932275,524
People per km²1,4381,947
Museums within 10 km2624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4435
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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). 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.