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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
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Palm Springs

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belgrade or Palm Springs?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belgrade for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Belgrade’s own page.

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belgrade 40, Palm Springs 7: Belgrade leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Palm Springs 40: Belgrade leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Palm Springs 42: Belgrade leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Palm Springs 36: Belgrade leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Palm Springs 38: Belgrade leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Belgrade 45, Palm Springs 40: Belgrade leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Palm Springs 22: Belgrade leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Palm Springs 32: Belgrade leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade 55, Palm Springs 40: Belgrade leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade 30, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Palm Springs.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Belgrade
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belgrade in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelgradePalm Springs
Official languageSerbian-
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m146 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradePalm Springs
City population1,197,71444,575
People per km²3,327181
Museums within 10 km653
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.