VacationSelector

Belgrade or Dubai?

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, 1 point apart

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubai
55
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.

BelgradeDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
BelgradeDubai
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km952
Coast distance292 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeDubai
Score6366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2926
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeDubai
Score5338
Museums within 10 km6726
Museums within 2 km of centre4718
Share of museums within 2 km %7069
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeDubai
Score6553
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7251
Nightclubs within 4 km13084
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeDubai
Score3818
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km147 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeDubai
Score5149
Tourist attractions within 2 km1437
Park area within 2 km147 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 31 points.31
BelgradeDubai
Score6837
Notable places within 2 km19033
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeDubai
Score8569
Price level global41.763.4
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeDubai
Score6566
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Dubai
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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeDubai
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
6 h 15 m
€237-344
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
2 h 40 m
€358-466
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
5 h 0 m
€330-383
DWC · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
TivatTIV
1 h 0 m
€106-127
BEG · 12 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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

MeasureBelgradeDubai
Official languageSerbianArabic
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m0 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeDubai
City population1,197,7143,944,751
People per km²3,327
Museums within 10 km6514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6252
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. 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.