VacationSelector

Belfast or Las Vegas?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

BelfastLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastLas Vegas
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance1 km372 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 6 points.6
BelfastLas Vegas
Score5662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3124
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 10 points.10
BelfastLas Vegas
Score2919
Museums within 10 km1824
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %3317
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
BelfastLas Vegas
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km550793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6361
Nightclubs within 4 km2990
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
BelfastLas Vegas
Score5363
Protected land share 50 km %1950
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 14 points.14
BelfastLas Vegas
Score4834
Tourist attractions within 2 km1619
Park area within 2 km68 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
BelfastLas Vegas
Score4251
Notable places within 2 km4375
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastLas Vegas
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 21 points.21
BelfastLas Vegas
Score5172
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Las Vegas
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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastLas Vegas
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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

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 centre24 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4449
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. 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.