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Belgrade or Boston?

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, 1 point apart

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Boston
55
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.

BelgradeBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BelgradeBoston
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km968
Coast distance292 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BelgradeBoston
Score6373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2932
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 10 points.10
BelgradeBoston
Score5343
Museums within 10 km6779
Museums within 2 km of centre4727
Share of museums within 2 km %7034
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeBoston
Score6558
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7258
Nightclubs within 4 km13043
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeBoston
Score3853
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km147 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeBoston
Score5153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1428
Park area within 2 km147 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 10 points.10
BelgradeBoston
Score6858
Notable places within 2 km190111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradeBoston
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeBoston
Score6556
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Boston
10
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeBoston
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 5 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBelgradeBoston
Official languageSerbian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m43 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeBoston
City population1,197,714675,647
People per km²3,3272,910
Museums within 10 km6551
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6274
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.