VacationSelector

Belfast or Cadiz?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

BelfastCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 22 points.22
BelfastCadiz
Score4870
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1029
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 12 points.12
BelfastCadiz
Score5644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3118
Museums & heritage. Cadiz leads by 7 points.7
BelfastCadiz
Score2936
Museums within 10 km1823
Museums within 2 km of centre616
Share of museums within 2 km %3370
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastCadiz
Score4830
Drinking venues within 4 km550241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6373
Nightclubs within 4 km296
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
BelfastCadiz
Score5326
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6545
Park area within 2 km68 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 6 points.6
BelfastCadiz
Score4854
Tourist attractions within 2 km1680
Park area within 2 km68 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastCadiz
Score4231
Notable places within 2 km4323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 17 points.17
BelfastCadiz
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 32 points.32
BelfastCadiz
Score5183
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm0 mm to 89 mm
Dry months05
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

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). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastCadiz
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
BilbaoBIO
2 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
2 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ArrecifeACE
4 h 5 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€85-133
SVQ · 105 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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

MeasureBelfastCadiz
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
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 m11 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastCadiz
City population345,006109,950
People per km²3,0009,087
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4428
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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. 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. 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.