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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Chengdu?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Chengdu 68: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Chengdu 50: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and wellness 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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastChengdu
Official languageEnglishPutonghua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation3 m500 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastChengdu
City population345,00620,937,757
People per km²3,0001,456
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.