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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Belfast or Hiroshima?

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

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

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Hiroshima 45: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Hiroshima 62: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Hiroshima 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on wellness 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastHiroshima
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastHiroshima
City population345,0061,198,021
People per km²3,0001,324
Museums within 10 km818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.