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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Belgrade or Punta Cana?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Punta Cana 30: Belgrade leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Punta Cana 8: Belgrade leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Punta Cana 40: Belgrade leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Punta Cana 35: Belgrade leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Belgrade 45, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Punta Cana 15: Belgrade leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Punta Cana 30: Belgrade leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Punta Cana 44: Belgrade leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade 55, Punta Cana 15: Belgrade leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade 30, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Belgrade
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelgradePunta Cana
Official languageSerbianSpanish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m28 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradePunta Cana
City population1,197,714138,919
People per km²3,327292
Museums within 10 km650
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.