Bosnia and Herzegovina SKETCH SCORE: 72/100Bosnia and Herzegovina moved +9 this weekThe Sketch Score jumped nine points to 72 today, so mind your surroundings while navigating the conflicting US and Canadian level two advisories.Bosnia and Herzegovina SKETCH SCORE: 72/100Bosnia and Herzegovina moved +9 this weekThe Sketch Score jumped nine points to 72 today, so mind your surroundings while navigating the conflicting US and Canadian level two advisories.
Bosnia and Herzegovina

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.

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence high▲ +9 this week
72Sketch Score
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Governments, one trip

What they're telling their own citizens about Bosnia and Herzegovina

The real score

The breakdown

78advisoryConsensus
58Political Stability
44Police Trust
76Health
98Crime
90LGBTQ+

See it from your perspective

72

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

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Plug & voltage

C / F · 230V

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Driving side

right

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Emergency

police: 122 / ambulance: 124 / fire: 123

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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.

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