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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Belfast or Hobart?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Hobart for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Hobart 30: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Hobart 60: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Hobart 56: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Hobart 45: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Hobart 38: Belfast leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Hobart 35: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Hobart 45: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Hobart 40: Hobart leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Hobart.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Hobart
48match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastHobart
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation3 m54 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastHobart
City population345,006197,451
People per km²3,000116
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.