VacationSelector

Belgrade or San Diego?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
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.

BelgradeSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
BelgradeSan Diego
Score063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km942
Coast distance292 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belgrade and San Diego are level on 63.
BelgradeSan Diego
Score6363
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2927
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeSan Diego
Score5344
Museums within 10 km6759
Museums within 2 km of centre4730
Share of museums within 2 km %7051
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeSan Diego
Score6550
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7266
Nightclubs within 4 km13031
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeSan Diego
Score3855
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km147 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
BelgradeSan Diego
Score5175
Tourist attractions within 2 km1440
Park area within 2 km147 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 28 points.28
BelgradeSan Diego
Score6840
Notable places within 2 km19040
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradeSan Diego
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 23 points.23
BelgradeSan Diego
Score6588
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeSan Diego
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 5 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€124-196
BEG · 12 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureBelgradeSan Diego
Official languageSerbian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m129 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSan Diego
City population1,197,7141,386,932
People per km²3,3271,438
Museums within 10 km6526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6244
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.