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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • beaches

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. Bangkok 12, Belfast 20: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Belfast 50: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Belfast 55: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Belfast 50: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Belfast 74: Belfast leads by 49 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Belfast 66: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Belfast 58: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Belfast 62: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Belfast 45: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Belfast 48: Bangkok leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Belfast 25: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Belfast.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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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Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre150 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.