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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Belfast or Budapest?

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 Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Budapest for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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. Belfast 20, Budapest 25: Budapest leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Budapest 58: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Budapest 68: Budapest leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 73 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Budapest.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastBudapest
Official languageEnglishHungarian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Forint (HUF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m117 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBudapest
City population345,0061,675,777
People per km²3,0003,191
Museums within 10 km881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.