VacationSelector

Belfast or Boston?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

BelfastBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 12 points.12
BelfastBoston
Score4860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1068
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 17 points.17
BelfastBoston
Score5673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3132
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 14 points.14
BelfastBoston
Score2943
Museums within 10 km1879
Museums within 2 km of centre627
Share of museums within 2 km %3334
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BelfastBoston
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km550886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6358
Nightclubs within 4 km2943
Nature & day trips. Belfast and Boston are level on 53.
BelfastBoston
Score5353
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6577
Park area within 2 km68 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BelfastBoston
Score4853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1628
Park area within 2 km68 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 16 points.16
BelfastBoston
Score4258
Notable places within 2 km43111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastBoston
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BelfastBoston
Score5156
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm79 mm to 107 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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Daytime high, °C
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBoston
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
8 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBelfastBoston
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m43 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBoston
City population345,006675,647
People per km²3,0002,910
Museums within 10 km851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4474
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.