VacationSelector

Belgrade or Bilbao?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BelgradeBilbao
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BelgradeBilbao
Score031
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance292 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeBilbao
Score6362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776840
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2926
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeBilbao
Score5338
Museums within 10 km6725
Museums within 2 km of centre4712
Share of museums within 2 km %7048
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeBilbao
Score6558
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841730
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7284
Nightclubs within 4 km13050
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeBilbao
Score3853
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km147 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeBilbao
Score5147
Tourist attractions within 2 km1417
Park area within 2 km147 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeBilbao
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeBilbao
Score8571
Price level global41.760.8
Daily budget€99€122
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeBilbao
Score6570
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C13.5 °C to 26.3 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm53 mm to 170 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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeBilbao
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€124-196
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBelgradeBilbao
Official languageSerbianSpanish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m19 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeBilbao
City population1,197,714351,124
People per km²3,3278,440
Museums within 10 km6517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6254
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.