VacationSelector

Belgrade or Manchester?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Manchester
47
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.

BelgradeManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
BelgradeManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance292 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeManchester
Score6368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 11 points.11
BelgradeManchester
Score5342
Museums within 10 km6723
Museums within 2 km of centre4711
Share of museums within 2 km %7048
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeManchester
Score6562
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7277
Nightclubs within 4 km13082
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeManchester
Score3836
Protected land share 50 km %617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km147 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 19 points.19
BelgradeManchester
Score5132
Tourist attractions within 2 km145
Park area within 2 km147 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeManchester
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 31 points.31
BelgradeManchester
Score8554
Price level global41.784.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 11 points.11
BelgradeManchester
Score6554
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeManchester
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
PodgoricaTGD
1 h 0 m
€100-126
BEG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureBelgradeManchester
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 m38 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeManchester
City population1,197,714547,627
People per km²3,3274,737
Museums within 10 km6528
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6263
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. 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.