VacationSelector

Belfast or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BelfastHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 39 points.39
BelfastHong Kong
Score4887
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km1065
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
BelfastHong Kong
Score5688
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4324,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3132
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
BelfastHong Kong
Score2936
Museums within 10 km1850
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %3334
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
BelfastHong Kong
Score4871
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3481,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6359
Nightclubs within 4 km2937
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
BelfastHong Kong
Score5364
Protected land share 50 km %198
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6529
Park area within 2 km68 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 10 points.10
BelfastHong Kong
Score4858
Tourist attractions within 2 km1627
Park area within 2 km68 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
BelfastHong Kong
Score4269
Notable places within 2 km43204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
BelfastHong Kong
Score5463
Price level global84.972
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
BelfastHong Kong
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastHong Kong
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
9 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 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

MeasureBelfastHong Kong
Official languageEnglishStandard Chinese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999999
Elevation3 m7 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastHong Kong
City population345,0067,413,070
People per km²3,000
Museums within 10 km839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4476
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. 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.