VacationSelector

Belfast or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BelfastInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastInterlaken
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1012
Coast distance1 km713 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
BelfastInterlaken
Score5629
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3117
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 6 points.6
BelfastInterlaken
Score2923
Museums within 10 km185
Museums within 2 km of centre62
Share of museums within 2 km %3340
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 44 points.44
BelfastInterlaken
Score484
Drinking venues within 4 km55042
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre34838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6390
Nightclubs within 4 km293
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 26 points.26
BelfastInterlaken
Score5327
Protected land share 50 km %1919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 34 points.34
BelfastInterlaken
Score4814
Tourist attractions within 2 km1611
Park area within 2 km68 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 20 points.20
BelfastInterlaken
Score4222
Notable places within 2 km4314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 19 points.19
BelfastInterlaken
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 6 points.6
BelfastInterlaken
Score5157
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBelfastInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m571 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastInterlaken
City population345,0066,123
People per km²3,0001,424
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4422
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.