VacationSelector

Belgrade or Edinburgh?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BelgradeEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km920
Coast distance292 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score6370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score5357
Museums within 10 km6730
Museums within 2 km of centre4722
Share of museums within 2 km %7073
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 1 points.1
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score6564
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7274
Nightclubs within 4 km13065
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score3835
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km147 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 21 points.21
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score5172
Tourist attractions within 2 km1487
Park area within 2 km147 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score6860
Notable places within 2 km190126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 31 points.31
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score8554
Price level global41.784.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeEdinburgh
Score6551
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeEdinburgh
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureBelgradeEdinburgh
Official languageSerbianEnglish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112 or 999
Elevation117 m47 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeEdinburgh
City population1,197,714488,050
People per km²3,3271,884
Museums within 10 km6532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6278
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.