VacationSelector

Belfast or Belgrade?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Belgrade
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

BelfastBelgrade
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastBelgrade
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km109
Coast distance1 km292 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelfastBelgrade
Score5663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432776
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 24 points.24
BelfastBelgrade
Score2953
Museums within 10 km1867
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %3370
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelfastBelgrade
Score4865
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,163
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348841
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6372
Nightclubs within 4 km29130
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 15 points.15
BelfastBelgrade
Score5338
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %132
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelfastBelgrade
Score4851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1614
Park area within 2 km68 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 26 points.26
BelfastBelgrade
Score4268
Notable places within 2 km43190
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 31 points.31
BelfastBelgrade
Score5485
Price level global84.941.7
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelfastBelgrade
Score5165
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C5 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm44 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBelgrade
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€188-230
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastBelgrade
Official languageEnglishSerbian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Serbian Dinar (RSD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193
Elevation3 m117 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBelgrade
City population345,0061,197,714
People per km²3,0003,327
Museums within 10 km865
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4462
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.