Serbia Trip Cost Calculator

This Serbia trip cost calculator gives you a quick estimate of what your trip will cost, based on your own plans. Set the days, travelers, month, travel style and transport, then tick the sights and add any guided tours.

You get a total for the group, a realistic range (plus or minus 15%), and the cost per person and per person per day. All numbers are estimates in US dollars, built from typical prices. In Serbia you pay in dinars (RSD), and the dollar figures use a rate of about 100 dinars to the dollar.

Typical Daily Budget in Serbia

The examples below come from the calculator: two people sharing a room in May, for 5 days and 4 nights. They leave out sights, tours, motorway tolls and flights. Your own Serbia travel budget will change with the month, the travel style and the way you get around.

If you’re mostly staying in the capital, this guide on whether Belgrade is expensive looks at city prices in more detail.

Accommodation

Typical room prices per night in spring and autumn:

• Budget: about $27
• Mid-range: about $64
• Comfort: about $135
• Hostel bed for one person: about $21

Rooms are about 30% cheaper in low season and about 25% more expensive in peak season.

Belgrade charges a tourist tax of 240 RSD (about $2.40) per person per night since 15 October 2026. You pay it at the accommodation. Other towns have their own rates. The calculator adds tourist tax to the accommodation cost.

Food

The calculator uses about $20 per person per day for budget travelers, about $45 for mid-range and about $80 for comfort. They cover food and drinks and are built from typical prices like these:

• Pljeskavica (street food): about 450 RSD (about $4.50)
• Meal in a traditional restaurant (main, salad, drink): about 2,350 RSD (about $23)
• Cappuccino: about 250 RSD (about $2.50)
• Draft beer, 0.5 l: about 350 RSD (about $3.50)

Getting Around

Public transport in Belgrade

Buses, trams, trolleybuses, night lines and BG Voz city trains in Belgrade are free for everyone since 1 January 2025. The A1 airport minibus costs 400 RSD, paid in cash. An official airport taxi to the central zones is about 2,350–3,050 RSD (about $23–30).

Bus and train between towns

For trips between towns, the calculator uses about $6 per person per day on average.

Rental car or your own car

A rental car is about $17 a day in low season, about $27 in spring and autumn, and about $34 in summer. The calculator adds about $12 for fuel and $6 for parking per day.

• Petrol (BMB 95): 207 RSD per litre (about $2.07). Diesel: 236 RSD per litre (about $2.36). Fuel prices are set weekly.
• Parking in central Belgrade: red zone 80 RSD per hour (max 1 hour), yellow zone 65 RSD per hour (max 2 hours), green zone 55 RSD per hour (max 3 hours). Pay by SMS or ticket.
• Motorway tolls: Serbia has no vignette. You take a ticket at the entry and pay at the exit, in dinars or by card. Tolls are not included in the calculator.

To fit several places into one day, the Serbia day trip planner helps you work out a route.

Sights and Tickets

Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade

A guided tour ticket in English is 800 RSD (about $8). In Serbian it’s 400 RSD. Tours start on the hour and last about 45 minutes. You can only pay in cash, in dinars.

Golubac Fortress

Adults pay 950 RSD (about $9.50) for Zone I (green). Children 7–18 pay 250 RSD, and children under 7 go in free. The fortress is closed on Mondays. Guided Golubac Fortress tours combine it with other stops along the Danube.

Šargan Eight railway, Mokra Gora

A return ticket is 1,500 RSD for adults (about $15) and 750 RSD for children over 6. Children under 6 ride free. The 2026 season ran from 28 March to 31 October; 2027 dates are not announced yet. Outside the season, the calculator leaves it out of the total and tells you why. The railway is a common stop on Tara National Park tours.

Guided tours

Add the number of tours and a price per tour, and they go into the total. Below the calculator you’ll see tours from this site that visit the sights you picked. For more ideas, browse day tours from Belgrade.

How the Season Changes the Cost

• Low season (January, February, November): the cheapest rooms. The Šargan Eight season is over, and Golubac Fortress closes at 14:00.
• Shoulder season (March, April, October): normal prices.
• Peak season (May to September and December): the highest room prices and the longest opening hours.

Ways to Spend Less

• Use free public transport in Belgrade instead of taxis.
• Travel in low season, when rooms are about 30% cheaper.
• Share a room. Room prices are per room, so two people sharing pay about half each.
• If you understand Serbian, the Serbian-language tour at the Tesla Museum costs half the English one.
• Children under 7 go free at Golubac Fortress, and under 6 on the Šargan Eight.

For more practical advice before you go, read these Serbia travel tips.

Prices checked: November 2026.

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