VacationSelector

Belgrade or Catania?

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, 2 points apart

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BelgradeCatania
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
BelgradeCatania
Score058
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km95
Coast distance292 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeCatania
Score6349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2914
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeCatania
Score5359
Museums within 10 km6734
Museums within 2 km of centre4727
Share of museums within 2 km %7079
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 18 points.18
BelgradeCatania
Score6547
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7275
Nightclubs within 4 km13018
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeCatania
Score3831
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km147 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeCatania
Score5136
Tourist attractions within 2 km1425
Park area within 2 km147 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 29 points.29
BelgradeCatania
Score6839
Notable places within 2 km19037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeCatania
Score8568
Price level global41.764.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeCatania
Score6577
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm9 mm to 83 mm
Dry months05
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
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). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeCatania
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€127-186
BEG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 35 m
no fares
TSR · 130 km
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 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

MeasureBelgradeCatania
Official languageSerbianItalian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 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 m7 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeCatania
City population1,197,714311,584
People per km²3,3271,704
Museums within 10 km6525
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6230
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. 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.