VacationSelector

Bangkok or Belfast?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

BangkokBelfast
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 8 points.8
BangkokBelfast
Score4048
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 27 points.27
BangkokBelfast
Score8356
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957432
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
BangkokBelfast
Score4629
Museums within 10 km10318
Museums within 2 km of centre306
Share of museums within 2 km %2933
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
BangkokBelfast
Score8348
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383550
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396348
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4163
Nightclubs within 4 km7229
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BangkokBelfast
Score5153
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %8365
Park area within 2 km42 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokBelfast
Score5748
Tourist attractions within 2 km3116
Park area within 2 km42 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 6 points.6
BangkokBelfast
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6243
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokBelfast
Score9354
Price level global29.784.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokBelfast
Score5651
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C6.9 °C to 19 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm55 mm to 89 mm
Dry months30
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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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBelfast
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
PraguePRG
10 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 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

MeasureBangkokBelfast
Official languageThaiEnglish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112 or 999
Elevation2 m3 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBelfast
City population5,676,648345,006
People per km²3,6193,000
Museums within 10 km598
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9144
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.