VacationSelector

Sarajevo or Sydney?

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.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
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.

SarajevoSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SarajevoSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km0160
Coast distance120 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 40 points.40
SarajevoSydney
Score3878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2272,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1731
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoSydney
Score5251
Museums within 10 km3844
Museums within 2 km of centre3320
Share of museums within 2 km %8745
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 34 points.34
SarajevoSydney
Score4175
Drinking venues within 4 km4162,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2921,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7069
Nightclubs within 4 km11120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 38 points.38
SarajevoSydney
Score2058
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km37 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 28 points.28
SarajevoSydney
Score3664
Tourist attractions within 2 km1637
Park area within 2 km37 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoSydney
Score6160
Notable places within 2 km131123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 38 points.38
SarajevoSydney
Score8850
Price level global37.490.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 21 points.21
SarajevoSydney
Score6081
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureSarajevoSydney
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianEnglish
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation518 m6 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoSydney
City population275,5245,450,496
People per km²1,947449
Museums within 10 km2438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3579
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.