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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Belfast or Lima?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Lima 88: Lima leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Lima 66: Lima leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Lima 62: Lima leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Lima 45: Belfast leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Lima 34: Belfast leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Lima 42: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Lima 35: Belfast leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Lima 52: Lima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Lima 70: Lima leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Lima 53: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast and Lima are level on 25.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Lima.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Belfast
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Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastLima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastLima
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999111 or 911
Elevation3 m154 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastLima
City population345,0069,943,800
People per km²3,0003,721
Museums within 10 km847
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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.