VacationSelector

Belgrade or Cologne?

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

Your match

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

BelgradeCologne
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Cologne are level on 0.
BelgradeCologne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km940
Coast distance292 km256 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeCologne
Score6372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeCologne
Score5360
Museums within 10 km6747
Museums within 2 km of centre4727
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeCologne
Score6564
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7266
Nightclubs within 4 km13090
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 33 points.33
BelgradeCologne
Score3871
Protected land share 50 km %653
Landscape blanket share 50 km %252
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 21 points.21
BelgradeCologne
Score5172
Tourist attractions within 2 km1443
Park area within 2 km147 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeCologne
Score6853
Notable places within 2 km19081
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 25 points.25
BelgradeCologne
Score8560
Price level global41.775.9
Daily budget€99€163
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeCologne
Score6560
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 10 m
€210-235
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€124-196
BEG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 20 m
€271-340
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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

MeasureBelgradeCologne
Official languageSerbianGerman
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 m59 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeCologne
City population1,197,7141,024,621
People per km²3,3272,530
Museums within 10 km6540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6284

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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. 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.