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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Belgrade or Santa Fe?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belgrade for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Belgrade’s own page.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belgrade 40, Santa Fe 5: Belgrade leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Santa Fe 22: Belgrade leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Belgrade and Santa Fe are level on 45.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Santa Fe 40: Belgrade leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Santa Fe 30: Belgrade leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade and Santa Fe are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade 30, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Santa Fe.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Belgrade
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belgrade in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelgradeSanta Fe
Official languageSerbian-
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m2,134 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSanta Fe
City population1,197,71487,505
People per km²3,327645
Museums within 10 km6510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.