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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Aspen 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 Aspen for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Belfast for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Aspen 6, Belfast 20: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Belfast 74: Aspen leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Belfast 66: Belfast leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Belfast 58: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Belfast 62: Aspen leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Belfast 45: Aspen leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Belfast 48: Belfast leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Belfast 25: Aspen leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Belfast.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Aspen has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenBelfast
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,405 m3 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenBelfast
City population7,004345,006
People per km²7003,000
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.