Sarajevo

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Numbeo's Safety Index puts Sarajevo at 56/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Bosnia and Herzegovina's national picture overall (65/100 vs 72/100).

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence high
65Sketch Score

City page · part of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The one number a country page can't give you

What people who actually live in Sarajevo report

Numbeo aggregates thousands of resident-submitted perception surveys into a per-city Crime Index (higher = worse) and its inverse, a Safety Index — the only real city-granularity crime signal feeding this page, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina's national advisory, political, health, and police-trust data.

Crime Index

43.8

Safety Index

56.2

Source: Numbeo, user-submitted →

Sub-scores

Same real inputs as Bosnia and Herzegovina's national page, with crime swapped for Sarajevo's own Numbeo number above.

78advisoryConsensus
58Political Stability
44Police Trust
76Health
56Crime
90LGBTQ+

Legal status (national law)

Legal since 1996 in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Republika Srpska since 1998, and in Brčko District since 2003 + UN decl. sign.

Source: Wikipedia — LGBTQ rights by country →

Pack this, know this

The little things that trip people up

🔌

Plug & voltage

C / F · 230V

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Driving side

right

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Emergency

police: 122 / ambulance: 124 / fire: 123

How this compares to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Numbeo's Safety Index puts Sarajevo at 56/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Bosnia and Herzegovina's national picture overall (65/100 vs 72/100).

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