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Sarajevo or Washington DC?

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.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

SarajevoWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
SarajevoWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance120 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 39 points.39
SarajevoWashington DC
Score3877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2271,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1736
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 3 points.3
SarajevoWashington DC
Score5255
Museums within 10 km3883
Museums within 2 km of centre3355
Share of museums within 2 km %8766
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 20 points.20
SarajevoWashington DC
Score4161
Drinking venues within 4 km4161,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7058
Nightclubs within 4 km1154
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 22 points.22
SarajevoWashington DC
Score2042
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km37 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
SarajevoWashington DC
Score3638
Tourist attractions within 2 km167
Park area within 2 km37 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 15 points.15
SarajevoWashington DC
Score6176
Notable places within 2 km131305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 45 points.45
SarajevoWashington DC
Score8843
Price level global37.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
SarajevoWashington DC
Score6062
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Sarajevo
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoWashington DC
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 7 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureSarajevoWashington DC
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation518 m72 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoWashington DC
City population275,524689,545
People per km²1,9473,896
Museums within 10 km2499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3582
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.