Go, but pay attention.
Serbia’s sketch score jumped to 76 today, so pay attention despite the US, UK, and Canadian governments keeping their advisory levels low. Watch for the global measles notice while you travel.
Governments, one trip
What they're telling their own citizens about Serbia
The real score
The breakdown
See it from your perspective
Go, but pay attention.
The general Sketch Score, unweighted for any specific traveler.
Staying healthy
What to watch out for, health-wise
Active notices
- • Global Measles
Vaccines
Recommended:
From people who've been there
Local know-how
Staying safe
- •Serbia is generally a safe place to visit.
- •Emergency phone numbers are: 192 - police; 193 - fire dept. and 194 - ambulance. Save these as contacts on your phone.
- •Other international emergency numbers, such as 112 or 911 will route but only to the nearest police service and as such should be avoided for other emergencies.
- •Following the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, reports of UXOs (unexploded ordnance) have occurred outside the major cities.
- •Floods are common in spring and autumn in river basins - the Danube, Sava, Tisza and Drina.
- •Serbia is located in a seismically active area, so earthquakes are possible.
Staying healthy
- •Tap water is generally safe to drink, and mainly of a good quality, too, albeit heavily chlorinated in some areas.
- •Pay attention to water in Vojvodina.
- •Emergency care is always free.
- •The Serbian National Health Insurance Fund, responsible for the payment of public healthcare in Serbia, does maintain agreements with several nations (site in Serbian) from which health insu…
Adapted from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA — edited by travelers, not us.
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Pack this, know this
The little things that trip people up
Plug & voltage
C / F · 230V
Driving side
right
Emergency
police: 192 or 112 / ambulance: 194 / fire: 193
Zoom in
2 Serbia cities on SKETCH.WORLD
Real, resident-submitted Numbeo crime data at the city level — the same national picture above, with crime swapped for what people who actually live there report.
Show the receipts (12 sources)
- us-state — observed 2026-07-12
- uk-fcdo — observed 2026-07-12
- ca-gac — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-political — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-policeTrust — observed 2026-07-12
- cdc-health — observed 2026-07-12
- wikivoyage — observed 2026-07-12
- gdelt — observed 2026-07-11
- reddit — observed 2026-07-12
- unodc — observed 2026-07-12
- acled-hdx — observed 2026-07-12
- lgbtq-legal-wikipedia — observed 2026-07-12