VacationSelector

Belgrade or Chicago?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Chicago
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BelgradeChicago
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
BelgradeChicago
Score053
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km912
Coast distance292 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 18 points.18
BelgradeChicago
Score6381
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7762,147
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeChicago
Score5346
Museums within 10 km6745
Museums within 2 km of centre4720
Share of museums within 2 km %7044
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeChicago
Score6562
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,123
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841728
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7265
Nightclubs within 4 km13051
Nature & day trips. Belgrade and Chicago are level on 38.
BelgradeChicago
Score3838
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeChicago
Score5155
Tourist attractions within 2 km1418
Park area within 2 km147 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeChicago
Score6870
Notable places within 2 km190217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradeChicago
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeChicago
Score6557
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C0.2 °C to 29.4 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Chicago
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
Chicago
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). Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeChicago
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€189-423
ORD · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 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

MeasureBelgradeChicago
Official languageSerbian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m179 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeChicago
City population1,197,7142,746,388
People per km²3,3274,529
Museums within 10 km6543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6287
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. 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.