VacationSelector

Belgrade or Thessaloniki?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BelgradeThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km94
Coast distance292 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 13 points.13
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score6350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score5349
Museums within 10 km6734
Museums within 2 km of centre4722
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score6567
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7257
Nightclubs within 4 km13061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score3865
Protected land share 50 km %625
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km147 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 10 points.10
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score5141
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km147 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 12 points.12
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score6856
Notable places within 2 km19098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 11 points.11
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score8574
Price level global41.755.8
Daily budget€99€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeThessaloniki
Score6572
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeThessaloniki
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
€180-249
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
2 h 30 m
€128-174
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€124-196
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 5 m
€197-240
BEG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureBelgradeThessaloniki
Official languageSerbianGreek
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m6 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeThessaloniki
City population1,197,714309,617
People per km²3,32716,042
Museums within 10 km6531
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.