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Sarajevo or York?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
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.

SarajevoYork
Beaches & swimming. Sarajevo and York are level on 0.
SarajevoYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance120 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 16 points.16
SarajevoYork
Score3854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre227361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1731
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 6 points.6
SarajevoYork
Score5246
Museums within 10 km3818
Museums within 2 km of centre3316
Share of museums within 2 km %8789
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. York leads by 2 points.2
SarajevoYork
Score4143
Drinking venues within 4 km416450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7078
Nightclubs within 4 km1114
Nature & day trips. York leads by 13 points.13
SarajevoYork
Score2033
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km37 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 7 points.7
SarajevoYork
Score3643
Tourist attractions within 2 km1613
Park area within 2 km37 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 22 points.22
SarajevoYork
Score6139
Notable places within 2 km13137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 34 points.34
SarajevoYork
Score8854
Price level global37.484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sarajevo leads by 4 points.4
SarajevoYork
Score6056
Monthly daytime high4.2 °C to 28.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall66 mm to 91 mm39 mm to 66 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSarajevoYork
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 144 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GironaGRO
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Kuwait CityKWI
4 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureSarajevoYork
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianEnglish
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation518 m25 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarajevoYork
City population275,524208,400
People per km²1,947766
Museums within 10 km2424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3554

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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. 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.