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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Belgrade or Queenstown?

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

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Belgrade leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Queenstown 45: Belgrade leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Queenstown 12: Belgrade leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Queenstown 42: Belgrade leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Queenstown 50: Belgrade leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Belgrade 45, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Queenstown 45: Belgrade leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Queenstown 28: Belgrade leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Queenstown 20: Belgrade leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade 55, Queenstown 14: Belgrade leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade 30, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Queenstown.

Your match

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

Belgrade
Best match
53match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
15 hdaylight a day

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Queenstown has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBelgradeQueenstown
Official languageSerbianEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193111
Elevation117 m324 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeQueenstown
City population1,197,71429,000
People per km²3,327-
Museums within 10 km650
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.