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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License.

Belfast or Delhi?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Delhi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Delhi’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, Delhi 4: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Delhi 84: Delhi leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Delhi 85: Delhi leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Delhi 44: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Delhi 20: Belfast leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Delhi 68: Delhi leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Delhi 32: Belfast leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Delhi 55: Belfast leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Delhi 78: Delhi leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Delhi 90: Delhi leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast and Delhi are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast and Delhi are level on 25.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Delhi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Belfast
51match

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

Delhi
53match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 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). Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastDelhi
Official languageEnglishHindi, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112 or 999108 or 112
Elevation3 m221 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastDelhi
City population345,00626,495,000
People per km²3,00018,962
Museums within 10 km823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.