VacationSelector

Belfast or Como?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Como
34
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

BelfastComo
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastComo
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km108
Coast distance1 km156 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 31 points.31
BelfastComo
Score5625
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432259
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km317
Museums & heritage. Como leads by 17 points.17
BelfastComo
Score2946
Museums within 10 km189
Museums within 2 km of centre66
Share of museums within 2 km %3367
Unesco sites within 50 km18
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 24 points.24
BelfastComo
Score4824
Drinking venues within 4 km550213
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348143
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6367
Nightclubs within 4 km291
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 13 points.13
BelfastComo
Score5340
Protected land share 50 km %1923
Landscape blanket share 50 km %135
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 33 points.33
BelfastComo
Score4815
Tourist attractions within 2 km166
Park area within 2 km68 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 12 points.12
BelfastComo
Score4230
Notable places within 2 km4322
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 14 points.14
BelfastComo
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Como leads by 7 points.7
BelfastComo
Score5158
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C7.1 °C to 27.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm61 mm to 178 mm
Dry months00
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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Como
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3

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). Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastComo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 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

MeasureBelfastComo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m201 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastComo
City population345,00683,184
People per km²3,0002,242
Museums within 10 km89
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km18
Distinct cuisines in the centre4422
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.