VacationSelector

Belgrade or Shanghai?

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, level with your weighting

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

BelgradeShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance292 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeShanghai
Score5345
Museums within 10 km67108
Museums within 2 km of centre4728
Share of museums within 2 km %7026
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeShanghai
Score3842
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km147 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 30 points.30
BelgradeShanghai
Score5181
Tourist attractions within 2 km1486
Park area within 2 km147 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km110
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 17 points.17
BelgradeShanghai
Score6851
Notable places within 2 km19073
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeShanghai
Score8579
Price level global41.749
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Belgrade and Shanghai are level on 65.
BelgradeShanghai
Score6565
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm43 mm to 216 mm
Dry months00
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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
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
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeShanghai
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
GuangzhouCAN
10 h 35 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€127-144
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
2 h 40 m
€358-466
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureBelgradeShanghai
Official languageSerbianPutonghua
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation117 m4 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeShanghai
City population1,197,71424,870,895
People per km²3,3273,922
Museums within 10 km6544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6264
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.