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Belfast or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Titanic Belfast, Belfast
Belfast

Photo: Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
51
match

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

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BelfastCairo
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 10 points.10
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 41 points.41
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
Nature & outdoors. Belfast leads by 44 points.44
Day trips. Belfast and Cairo are level on 66.
Good for families. Belfast leads by 26 points.26
Getting around. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 13 points.13
Affordability. Cairo leads by 47 points.47
Live music & performing arts. Belfast leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast leads by 10 points.10
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBelfastCairo
Daytime high19 °C36 °C
Night-time low12 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month74 mm0 mm
Sunshine5 hours a day12 hours a day
Sea temperature12 °CNo sea
Daylight17 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastCairo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€220-273
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
PraguePRG
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 45 m
€271-316
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 15 m
€624-1013
1 stop
CAI · 17 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

MeasureBelfastCairo
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation3 m23 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastCairo
City population345,0069,801,536
People per km²3,00018,564
Museums within 10 km848
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.