VacationSelector

Belgrade or Vienna?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

The verdict

Choose Belgrade if you want a compact, warmer city break, with more park space near the centre, nightclubs concentrated where you will be staying, and shoulder months that stay mild into October.

Choose Vienna if museums and heritage are the reason for the trip, with several times Belgrade's museum count, UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach, and far more for families, including theme parks.

Scoreboard

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

BelgradeVienna
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Vienna are level on 0.
BelgradeVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance292 km10,000 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeVienna
Score6377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 28 points.28
BelgradeVienna
Score5381
Museums within 10 km67192
Museums within 2 km of centre47110
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeVienna
Score6574
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1631,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8411,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7256
Nightclubs within 4 km130108
Nature & day trips. Belgrade leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeVienna
Score3832
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 18 points.18
BelgradeVienna
Score5169
Tourist attractions within 2 km1446
Park area within 2 km147 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeVienna
Score6875
Notable places within 2 km190287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 26 points.26
BelgradeVienna
Score8559
Price level global41.776.9
Daily budget€99€160
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeVienna
Score6561
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

Where they differ

Belgrade has about twice as much park space near the centre, and a slightly larger share of protected land around it. Its nightclubs outnumber Vienna's and sit mostly near the centre, where half of Vienna's are further out. Serbia's estimated daily budget is €99 against Austria's €160.

Vienna has about three times as many museums, plus 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach where Belgrade has none. For families there are far more attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks against 1, and a wider range of kitchens.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim in the sea. Vienna has 22 beaches nearby and Belgrade 9, but neither has a month of water at 21°C or more, so swimming is incidental rather than a reason to go.

Otherwise both are inland cities with cold winters and warm summers, winter highs near 5°C and 3°C. Protected land is limited around both, and each keeps its main sights within walking distance of the centre.

Which traveller are you?

A museum-led traveller should take Vienna: several times Belgrade's museum count, 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and about twice as many notable sights within walking distance of the centre.

Anyone travelling for nights out will find Belgrade simpler: more nightclubs than Vienna, and nearly all of them near the centre, so an evening needs little planning. Vienna has more bars, but half sit outside the middle.

Families are better served in Vienna, with far more attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks within reach against 1, though Belgrade's larger central park space suits younger children.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €99 for Serbia and €160 for Austria, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of Belgrade or Vienna. A capital or a heavily visited city can sit further from its own country's average than these two countries sit from each other, so treat them as background rather than a guide to either trip.

Summer looks best on the monthly data, but those same months carry the heat and most of the rain: Belgrade reaches 30°C at its peak, and its early-summer rainfall tops 95mm. Warm does not mean dry.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Belgrade holds the shoulder months better: 24°C in September against Vienna's 21°C, and it stays milder into October. June is its wettest month, at 95mm.

Vienna suits high summer, when 25-27°C is easier going than Belgrade's 30°C peak, though rain runs 70-78mm across those months. It also has the one month drier than 40mm, in cold February.

Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeVienna
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
€751-914
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 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

MeasureBelgradeVienna
Official languageSerbianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m151 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeVienna
City population1,197,7142,028,289
People per km²3,3274,890
Museums within 10 km65152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre62113

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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. 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.