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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Las Vegas?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Las Vegas 25: Belfast leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Las Vegas 68: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Las Vegas 25: Belfast leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Las Vegas 25: Belfast leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Las Vegas 38: Belfast leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Las Vegas 35: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastLas Vegas

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m610 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastLas Vegas
City population345,006641,903
People per km²3,0001,843
Museums within 10 km821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.