VacationSelector

Sarajevo or Seattle?

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

Your match

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

SarajevoSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SarajevoSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0100
Coast distance120 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 37 points.37
SarajevoSeattle
Score3875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2271,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1735
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 16 points.16
SarajevoSeattle
Score5236
Museums within 10 km3828
Museums within 2 km of centre3317
Share of museums within 2 km %8761
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 16 points.16
SarajevoSeattle
Score4157
Drinking venues within 4 km416873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km1134
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 20 points.20
SarajevoSeattle
Score2040
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km37 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 10 points.10
SarajevoSeattle
Score3646
Tourist attractions within 2 km1617
Park area within 2 km37 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 9 points.9
SarajevoSeattle
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km13176
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
SarajevoSeattle
Score8843
Price level global37.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoSeattle
Score6061
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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

MeasureSarajevoSeattle
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation518 m40 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoSeattle
City population275,524737,015
People per km²1,9471,996
Museums within 10 km2427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3578
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.