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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Belfast or Jerusalem?

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

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

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Jerusalem 38: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Jerusalem 60: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Jerusalem 52: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Jerusalem 55: Belfast leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Jerusalem 20: Belfast leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Jerusalem 40: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Jerusalem 42: Jerusalem leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Belfast
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Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Jerusalem
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Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Jerusalem has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastJerusalem
Official languageEnglishHebrew
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 100, fire 102
Elevation3 m754 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastJerusalem
City population345,0061,050,151
People per km²3,0008,374
Museums within 10 km869
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 months

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.