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Belgrade or Kathmandu?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
Belgrade

Photo: Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Belgrade
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BelgradeKathmandu
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade leads by 36 points.36
Food & drink. Belgrade leads by 5 points.5
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 30 points.30
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 44 points.44
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu leads by 20 points.20
Day trips. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 25 points.25
Getting around. Belgrade leads by 30 points.30
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 13 points.13
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 27 points.27
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade leads by 27 points.27
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 15 points.15
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Kathmandu.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBelgradeKathmandu
Daytime high29 °C29 °C
Night-time low18 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month67 mm384 mm
Sunshine10 hours a day4 hours a day
Daylight15 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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Daytime high, °C
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeKathmandu
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
DohaDOH
4 h 50 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
4 h 35 m
€459-552
KTM · 4 km
GuangzhouCAN
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
4 h 0 m
€434-523
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
5 h 10 m
€418-522
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€415-478
KTM · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€450-780
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
KTM · 4 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

MeasureBelgradeKathmandu
Official languageSerbianNepali
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation117 m1,300 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeKathmandu
City population1,197,714845,767
People per km²3,32717,121
Museums within 10 km659
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.