VacationSelector

Belgrade or London?

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.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelgradeLondon
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and London are level on 0.
BelgradeLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km947
Coast distance292 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 25 points.25
BelgradeLondon
Score6388
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7763,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2940
Museums & heritage. London leads by 19 points.19
BelgradeLondon
Score5372
Museums within 10 km67148
Museums within 2 km of centre4749
Share of museums within 2 km %7033
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 30 points.30
BelgradeLondon
Score6595
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1635,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8412,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7246
Nightclubs within 4 km130312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeLondon
Score3840
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %214
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km147 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 24 points.24
BelgradeLondon
Score5175
Tourist attractions within 2 km1485
Park area within 2 km147 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. London leads by 21 points.21
BelgradeLondon
Score6889
Notable places within 2 km190649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 31 points.31
BelgradeLondon
Score8554
Price level global41.784.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeLondon
Score6563
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months01
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeLondon
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 10 m
€210-235
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
€180-249
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 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

MeasureBelgradeLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeLondon
City population1,197,7148,799,728
People per km²3,3275,598
Museums within 10 km65215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre62116

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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. 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.