VacationSelector

Belgrade or Cancun?

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

Your match

Belgrade
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Cancun
50
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.

BelgradeCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
BelgradeCancun
Score097
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km923
Coast distance292 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeCancun
Score6354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2918
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 33 points.33
BelgradeCancun
Score5320
Museums within 10 km671
Museums within 2 km of centre471
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 29 points.29
BelgradeCancun
Score6536
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7265
Nightclubs within 4 km13033
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeCancun
Score3854
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km147 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 19 points.19
BelgradeCancun
Score5132
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km147 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 64 points.64
BelgradeCancun
Score684
Notable places within 2 km1905
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeCancun
Score8576
Price level global41.754.2
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeCancun
Score6581
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm38 mm to 224 mm
Dry months01
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Cancun
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeCancun
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 5 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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

MeasureBelgradeCancun
Official languageSerbianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m5 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeCancun
City population1,197,714888,797
People per km²3,327
Museums within 10 km651
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6231
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.