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Sarajevo or Vienna?

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 with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

SarajevoVienna
Beaches & swimming. Sarajevo and Vienna are level on 0.
SarajevoVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance120 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 39 points.39
SarajevoVienna
Score3877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2271,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1737
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
SarajevoVienna
Score5281
Museums within 10 km38192
Museums within 2 km of centre33110
Share of museums within 2 km %8757
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 33 points.33
SarajevoVienna
Score4174
Drinking venues within 4 km4161,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2921,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7056
Nightclubs within 4 km11108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
SarajevoVienna
Score2032
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km37 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 33 points.33
SarajevoVienna
Score3669
Tourist attractions within 2 km1646
Park area within 2 km37 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
SarajevoVienna
Score6175
Notable places within 2 km131287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 29 points.29
SarajevoVienna
Score8859
Price level global37.476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
SarajevoVienna
Score6061
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasureSarajevoVienna
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation518 m151 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoVienna
City population275,5242,028,289
People per km²1,9474,890
Museums within 10 km24152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre35113

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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. 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.