VacationSelector

Belgrade or Seattle?

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, 2 points apart

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelgradeSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
BelgradeSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9100
Coast distance292 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeSeattle
Score6375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeSeattle
Score5336
Museums within 10 km6728
Museums within 2 km of centre4717
Share of museums within 2 km %7061
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeSeattle
Score6557
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7280
Nightclubs within 4 km13034
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeSeattle
Score3840
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km147 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeSeattle
Score5146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1417
Park area within 2 km147 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeSeattle
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
BelgradeSeattle
Score8543
Price level global41.7100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeSeattle
Score6561
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeSeattle
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€127-186
BEG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 5 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureBelgradeSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSeattle
City population1,197,714737,015
People per km²3,3271,996
Museums within 10 km6527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6278
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.