VacationSelector

Sarajevo or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SarajevoTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
SarajevoTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km018
Coast distance120 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 24 points.24
SarajevoTallinn
Score3862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre227481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1739
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
SarajevoTallinn
Score5262
Museums within 10 km3871
Museums within 2 km of centre3357
Share of museums within 2 km %8780
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
SarajevoTallinn
Score4146
Drinking venues within 4 km416462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km1143
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 11 points.11
SarajevoTallinn
Score2031
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km37 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
SarajevoTallinn
Score3651
Tourist attractions within 2 km1620
Park area within 2 km37 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoTallinn
Score6162
Notable places within 2 km131135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 18 points.18
SarajevoTallinn
Score8870
Price level global37.462.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 12 points.12
SarajevoTallinn
Score6048
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm34 mm to 83 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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoTallinn
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 10 m
€158-171
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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

MeasureSarajevoTallinn
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianEstonian
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation518 m28 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoTallinn
City population275,524457,572
People per km²1,9472,871
Museums within 10 km2415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3563
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.