VacationSelector

Antwerp or Belfast?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AntwerpBelfast
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
AntwerpBelfast
Score048
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpBelfast
Score7556
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164432
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 40 points.40
AntwerpBelfast
Score6929
Museums within 10 km4118
Museums within 2 km of centre276
Share of museums within 2 km %6633
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpBelfast
Score5948
Drinking venues within 4 km866550
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657348
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7663
Nightclubs within 4 km7329
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpBelfast
Score3453
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %8065
Park area within 2 km53 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpBelfast
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km53 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpBelfast
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8843
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpBelfast
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpBelfast
Score5851
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C6.9 °C to 19 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm55 mm to 89 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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F
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A
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBelfast
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureAntwerpBelfast
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBelfast
City population529,247345,006
People per km²2,5423,000
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8044
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.