Go, but pay attention.
The Sketch Score jumped nine points to 72 today, so mind your surroundings while navigating the conflicting US and Canadian level two advisories.
Governments, one trip
What they're telling their own citizens about Bosnia and Herzegovina
The real score
The breakdown
See it from your perspective
Go, but pay attention.
The general Sketch Score, unweighted for any specific traveler.
Don't fall for it
Scams to know
Pickpocketing
Pickpockets operate in the old center of Sarajevo and in cities like Mostar and Banja Luka. Remain vigilant in these areas to avoid theft.
Staying healthy
What to watch out for, health-wise
Active notices
- • Global Measles
Vaccines
Recommended:
From people who've been there
Local know-how
Staying safe
- •Land mines: Be very careful when travelling off the beaten path in Bosnia and Herzegovina: it is still clearing many of the estimated 5 million land mines left around the countryside during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995.
- •Some rules: Abide to the warning signs around everywhere Whenever you're in rural areas, try to stay on paved areas if possible.
- •In case you are still suspicious and want to at least get a feel for where dangers lurk, there exists a rough map layer for OsmAnd online based on the picture here.
- •Footpaths are free of mines, and the grass to the side of them is mostly demined but the odd mine remains in some rural areas.
- •Crime: Bosnia experiences very little violent crime. However, in the old centre of Sarajevo and in other cities such as Mostar and Banja Luka, beware of pickpockets.
- •Dogs: Bosnia has far fewer stray and street dogs than many other Eastern European countries.
Staying healthy
- •All Bosnian employees undergo regular health checks to ensure that they can physically do their jobs and that they will not transmit any disease or injure anyone.
- •Tap water is drinkable in most parts of the country, there's even "hajrli česme" or "safe travel fountains" in some parts of the country which offers drinkable water from the source of a mountain.
- •Since the food is rich, some extra exercise may help.
- •And as above, never walk off dedicated paths in case of land mines.
Adapted from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA — edited by travelers, not us.
Pack this, know this
The little things that trip people up
Plug & voltage
C / F · 230V
Driving side
right
Emergency
police: 122 / ambulance: 124 / fire: 123
Zoom in
One Bosnia and Herzegovina city on SKETCH.WORLD
Real, resident-submitted Numbeo crime data at the city level — the same national picture above, with crime swapped for what people who actually live there report.
Show the receipts (11 sources)
- us-state — observed 2026-07-12
- uk-fcdo — observed 2026-07-12
- ca-gac — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-political — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-policeTrust — observed 2026-07-12
- cdc-health — observed 2026-07-12
- wikivoyage — observed 2026-07-12
- reddit — observed 2026-07-12
- unodc — observed 2026-07-12
- acled-hdx — observed 2026-07-12
- lgbtq-legal-wikipedia — observed 2026-07-12