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Sarajevo or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

SarajevoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
SarajevoThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance120 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 32 points.32
SarajevoThe Hague
Score3870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre227798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1743
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
SarajevoThe Hague
Score5262
Museums within 10 km3846
Museums within 2 km of centre3326
Share of museums within 2 km %8757
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
SarajevoThe Hague
Score4146
Drinking venues within 4 km416511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7056
Nightclubs within 4 km1119
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 34 points.34
SarajevoThe Hague
Score2054
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km37 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
SarajevoThe Hague
Score3656
Tourist attractions within 2 km1610
Park area within 2 km37 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
SarajevoThe Hague
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km13186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 30 points.30
SarajevoThe Hague
Score8858
Price level global37.479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 6 points.6
SarajevoThe Hague
Score6054
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoThe Hague
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 144 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 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

MeasureSarajevoThe Hague
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianDutch
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation518 m1 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoThe Hague
City population275,524548,320
People per km²1,9475,589
Museums within 10 km2454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3577
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.