VacationSelector

Athens or Belgrade?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AthensBelgrade
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensBelgrade
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance6 km292 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensBelgrade
Score6963
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431776
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2529
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensBelgrade
Score7353
Museums within 10 km12267
Museums within 2 km of centre7847
Share of museums within 2 km %6470
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 16 points.16
AthensBelgrade
Score8165
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,163
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354841
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5072
Nightclubs within 4 km136130
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 7 points.7
AthensBelgrade
Score4538
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensBelgrade
Score7151
Tourist attractions within 2 km6814
Park area within 2 km128 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 7 points.7
AthensBelgrade
Score7568
Notable places within 2 km291190
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 11 points.11
AthensBelgrade
Score7485
Price level global55.841.7
Daily budget€125€99
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensBelgrade
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C5 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm44 mm to 95 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensBelgrade
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 35 m
€198-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
LarnacaLCA
1 h 45 m
€63-80
ATH · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€128-174
BEG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAthensBelgrade
Official languageGreekSerbian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Serbian Dinar (RSD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193
Elevation74 m117 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensBelgrade
City population643,4521,197,714
People per km²16,4993,327
Museums within 10 km8865
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8262
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.