VacationSelector

Belgrade or Dresden?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

BelgradeDresden
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Dresden are level on 0.
BelgradeDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance292 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeDresden
Score6361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2942
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeDresden
Score5354
Museums within 10 km6766
Museums within 2 km of centre4734
Share of museums within 2 km %7052
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 23 points.23
BelgradeDresden
Score6542
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7274
Nightclubs within 4 km13043
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeDresden
Score3839
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %29
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeDresden
Score5159
Tourist attractions within 2 km1432
Park area within 2 km147 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeDresden
Score6853
Notable places within 2 km19082
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 25 points.25
BelgradeDresden
Score8560
Price level global41.775.9
Daily budget€99€163
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeDresden
Score6562
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeDresden
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€127-186
BEG · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 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

MeasureBelgradeDresden
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 m126 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeDresden
City population1,197,714564,904
People per km²3,3271,720
Museums within 10 km6570
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277

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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.