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The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belgrade or Sayulita?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Belgrade 60, Sayulita 42: Belgrade leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Belgrade 52, Sayulita 7: Belgrade leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Belgrade 80, Sayulita 33: Belgrade leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belgrade 50, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Belgrade 60, Sayulita 42: Belgrade leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Belgrade 45, Sayulita 42: Belgrade leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Belgrade 55, Sayulita 48: Belgrade leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Belgrade 42, Sayulita 33: Belgrade leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Belgrade 70, Sayulita 45: Belgrade leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belgrade 55, Sayulita 12: Belgrade leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belgrade 30, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belgrade and Sayulita.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelgradeSayulita

Where the figures come from

Sayulita has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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

Before you go

MeasureBelgradeSayulita
Official languageSerbianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193911
Elevation117 m2 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSayulita
City population1,197,7143,390
People per km²3,327-
Museums within 10 km650
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.