VacationSelector

Belgrade or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BelgradeRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BelgradeRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance292 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeRotterdam
Score6372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2946
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeRotterdam
Score5360
Museums within 10 km6741
Museums within 2 km of centre4720
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeRotterdam
Score6549
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7270
Nightclubs within 4 km13040
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeRotterdam
Score3842
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km147 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
BelgradeRotterdam
Score5162
Tourist attractions within 2 km1427
Park area within 2 km147 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeRotterdam
Score6851
Notable places within 2 km19074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 27 points.27
BelgradeRotterdam
Score8558
Price level global41.779.2
Daily budget€99€181
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeRotterdam
Score6556
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€182-234
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€140-185
RTM · 5 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
€85-94
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
PodgoricaTGD
1 h 0 m
€100-126
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MST · 143 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureBelgradeRotterdam
Official languageSerbianDutch
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112 or 911
Elevation117 m10 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeRotterdam
City population1,197,714664,311
People per km²3,3272,080
Museums within 10 km6540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.