VacationSelector

Belgrade or San Jose?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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 Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance292 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 22 points.22
BelgradeSan Jose
Score6341
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 27 points.27
BelgradeSan Jose
Score5326
Museums within 10 km6720
Museums within 2 km of centre479
Share of museums within 2 km %7045
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 34 points.34
BelgradeSan Jose
Score6531
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre84188
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7238
Nightclubs within 4 km13016
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 32 points.32
BelgradeSan Jose
Score3870
Protected land share 50 km %626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %22
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km147 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 18 points.18
BelgradeSan Jose
Score5133
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km147 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 54 points.54
BelgradeSan Jose
Score6814
Notable places within 2 km1909
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradeSan Jose
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 20 points.20
BelgradeSan Jose
Score6585
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months08
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeSan Jose
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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 Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSan Jose
City population1,197,7141,013,240
People per km²3,3272,167
Museums within 10 km6519
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6230
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.