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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Belfast?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Belfast for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Belfast 20: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Belfast 50: Arequipa leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Belfast 55: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa and Belfast are level on 74.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Belfast 66: Belfast leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Belfast 58: Belfast leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Belfast 62: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Belfast 45: Belfast leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Belfast 48: Arequipa leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Belfast 25: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Belfast.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaBelfast
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEnglish
CurrencySol (PEN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112 or 999
Elevation2,335 m3 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaBelfast
City population1,008,290345,006
People per km²1,5513,000
Museums within 10 km38
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.