VacationSelector

Belgrade or Rio de Janeiro?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
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.

BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km961
Coast distance292 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score6354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score5369
Museums within 10 km67110
Museums within 2 km of centre4751
Share of museums within 2 km %7046
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score6557
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7262
Nightclubs within 4 km13050
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score3862
Protected land share 50 km %621
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km147 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score5159
Tourist attractions within 2 km1430
Park area within 2 km147 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score6856
Notable places within 2 km19098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score8581
Price level global41.746.1
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeRio de Janeiro
Score6585
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeRio de Janeiro
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€127-186
BEG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 40 m
€178-264
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 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

MeasureBelgradeRio de Janeiro
Official languageSerbianPortuguese
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation117 m31 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeRio de Janeiro
City population1,197,7146,211,223
People per km²3,3274,930
Museums within 10 km6570
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6227
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.