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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Belfast or Kyoto?

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
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Kyoto 35: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Kyoto 70: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights 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

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastKyoto
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 m51 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastKyoto
City population345,0061,463,723
People per km²3,0001,768
Museums within 10 km877
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.