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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Belfast or Guadalajara?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Guadalajara for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Guadalajara 62: Guadalajara leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Guadalajara 55: Belfast leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Belfast and Guadalajara are level on 66.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Guadalajara 55: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Guadalajara 40: Belfast leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Guadalajara 78: Guadalajara leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Guadalajara 35: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Guadalajara.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBelfastGuadalajara
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m1,536 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastGuadalajara
City population345,0061,385,621
People per km²3,0009,556
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.