VacationSelector

Belfast or Frankfurt?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelfastFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastFrankfurt
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance1 km327 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 14 points.14
BelfastFrankfurt
Score5670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 40 points.40
BelfastFrankfurt
Score2969
Museums within 10 km1879
Museums within 2 km of centre643
Share of museums within 2 km %3354
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 11 points.11
BelfastFrankfurt
Score4859
Drinking venues within 4 km550931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6374
Nightclubs within 4 km2956
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 11 points.11
BelfastFrankfurt
Score5364
Protected land share 50 km %1928
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1311
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 20 points.20
BelfastFrankfurt
Score4868
Tourist attractions within 2 km1645
Park area within 2 km68 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 19 points.19
BelfastFrankfurt
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km43129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 6 points.6
BelfastFrankfurt
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 11 points.11
BelfastFrankfurt
Score5162
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months01
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

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). Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastFrankfurt
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 20 m
€264-346
FRA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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

MeasureBelfastFrankfurt
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m101 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastFrankfurt
City population345,006775,790
People per km²3,0003,124
Museums within 10 km853
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4471
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.