VacationSelector

Belgrade or Reykjavik?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BelgradeReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
BelgradeReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km933
Coast distance292 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeReykjavik
Score6349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeReykjavik
Score5350
Museums within 10 km6734
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %7068
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 38 points.38
BelgradeReykjavik
Score6527
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7286
Nightclubs within 4 km13010
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 21 points.21
BelgradeReykjavik
Score3859
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km147 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeReykjavik
Score5142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km147 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeReykjavik
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 44 points.44
BelgradeReykjavik
Score8541
Price level global41.7102.8
Daily budget€99€243
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 28 points.28
BelgradeReykjavik
Score6537
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€182-234
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€178-263
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureBelgradeReykjavik
Official languageSerbianIcelandic
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m8 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeReykjavik
City population1,197,714138,772
People per km²3,327569
Museums within 10 km6523
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6242
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.