VacationSelector

Belgrade or Helsinki?

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.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
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.

BelgradeHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
BelgradeHelsinki
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9157
Coast distance292 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeHelsinki
Score6371
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2938
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeHelsinki
Score5349
Museums within 10 km6757
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %7040
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeHelsinki
Score6556
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7275
Nightclubs within 4 km13040
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeHelsinki
Score3842
Protected land share 50 km %63
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km147 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeHelsinki
Score5158
Tourist attractions within 2 km1420
Park area within 2 km147 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeHelsinki
Score6873
Notable places within 2 km190257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 29 points.29
BelgradeHelsinki
Score8556
Price level global41.781.6
Daily budget€99€184
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeHelsinki
Score6548
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months03
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeHelsinki
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
€85-94
BEG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€182-234
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureBelgradeHelsinki
Official languageSerbianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m17 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeHelsinki
City population1,197,714694,392
People per km²3,3273,239
Museums within 10 km6574
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.