VacationSelector

Belgrade or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BelgradePhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Philadelphia are level on 0.
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance292 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score6377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score5360
Museums within 10 km6789
Museums within 2 km of centre4748
Share of museums within 2 km %7054
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 6 points.6
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score6559
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7262
Nightclubs within 4 km13041
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score3849
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km147 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score5153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km147 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 5 points.5
BelgradePhiladelphia
Score6560
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradePhiladelphia
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 5 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureBelgradePhiladelphia
Official languageSerbian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m12 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradePhiladelphia
City population1,197,7141,603,797
People per km²3,3274,339
Museums within 10 km6554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6275

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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.