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Sarajevo or Tromso?

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

Your match

Sarajevo
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

SarajevoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
SarajevoTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance120 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sarajevo leads by 14 points.14
SarajevoTromso
Score3824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre22785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1716
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 29 points.29
SarajevoTromso
Score5223
Museums within 10 km3810
Museums within 2 km of centre338
Share of museums within 2 km %8780
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
SarajevoTromso
Score417
Drinking venues within 4 km41667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre29261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7091
Nightclubs within 4 km115
Nature & day trips. Sarajevo leads by 9 points.9
SarajevoTromso
Score2011
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %19
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km37 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Sarajevo leads by 22 points.22
SarajevoTromso
Score3614
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km37 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 33 points.33
SarajevoTromso
Score6128
Notable places within 2 km13120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
SarajevoTromso
Score8854
Price level global37.485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 27 points.27
SarajevoTromso
Score6033
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm56 mm to 128 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoTromso
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€222-251
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureSarajevoTromso
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation518 m20 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoTromso
City population275,52479,943
People per km²1,94732
Museums within 10 km248
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3523
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. 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.