VacationSelector

Sarajevo or Seoul?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

SarajevoSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SarajevoSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance120 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 47 points.47
SarajevoSeoul
Score3885
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2273,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1732
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
SarajevoSeoul
Score5283
Museums within 10 km38203
Museums within 2 km of centre3390
Share of museums within 2 km %8744
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 39 points.39
SarajevoSeoul
Score4180
Drinking venues within 4 km4163,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2921,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7050
Nightclubs within 4 km1129
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
SarajevoSeoul
Score2032
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km37 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 43 points.43
SarajevoSeoul
Score3679
Tourist attractions within 2 km1662
Park area within 2 km37 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 2 points.2
SarajevoSeoul
Score6159
Notable places within 2 km131118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 16 points.16
SarajevoSeoul
Score8872
Price level global37.459.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoSeoul
Score6061
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months04
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoSeoul
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 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

MeasureSarajevoSeoul
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation518 m38 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoSeoul
City population275,5249,668,465
People per km²1,94715,973
Museums within 10 km2480
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre35156
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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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.