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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Belfast or Cebu?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Cebu for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’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, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Cebu 58: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Cebu 40: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Cebu 46: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Cebu 60: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Cebu 44: Belfast leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Cebu 45: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Cebu 26: Belfast leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Cebu 44: Belfast leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Cebu 25: Belfast leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Cebu 50: Cebu leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Cebu.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Cebu
48match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastCebu

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastCebu
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m135 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastCebu
City population345,006965,332
People per km²3,0003,065
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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). 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.

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.