VacationSelector

Belgrade or Lucerne?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belgrade
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BelgradeLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Lucerne are level on 0.
BelgradeLucerne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km916
Coast distance292 km669 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeLucerne
Score6347
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2925
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 13 points.13
BelgradeLucerne
Score5340
Museums within 10 km6723
Museums within 2 km of centre4713
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 37 points.37
BelgradeLucerne
Score6528
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7275
Nightclubs within 4 km13011
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 13 points.13
BelgradeLucerne
Score3825
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 13 points.13
BelgradeLucerne
Score5138
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km147 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 33 points.33
BelgradeLucerne
Score6835
Notable places within 2 km19029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 50 points.50
BelgradeLucerne
Score8535
Price level global41.7110.5
Daily budget€99€248
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeLucerne
Score6553
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeLucerne
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
€180-249
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€213-216
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureBelgradeLucerne
Official languageSerbianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m436 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeLucerne
City population1,197,71486,234
People per km²3,3272,963
Museums within 10 km6514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6246

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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.