VacationSelector

Belgrade or Madrid?

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 with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

BelgradeMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Madrid are level on 0.
BelgradeMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km94
Coast distance292 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeMadrid
Score6383
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7763,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2928
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 22 points.22
BelgradeMadrid
Score5375
Museums within 10 km6797
Museums within 2 km of centre4759
Share of museums within 2 km %7061
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeMadrid
Score6581
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1632,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8411,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7262
Nightclubs within 4 km130341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 25 points.25
BelgradeMadrid
Score3863
Protected land share 50 km %619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 26 points.26
BelgradeMadrid
Score5177
Tourist attractions within 2 km1461
Park area within 2 km147 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeMadrid
Score6875
Notable places within 2 km190288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeMadrid
Score8571
Price level global41.760.8
Daily budget€99€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeMadrid
Score6572
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months07
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeMadrid
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€191-243
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€127-186
BEG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 14 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

MeasureBelgradeMadrid
Official languageSerbianSpanish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 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 m663 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeMadrid
City population1,197,7143,506,730
People per km²3,3275,801
Museums within 10 km6588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre62106

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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. 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.