VacationSelector

Belfast or Lyon?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

BelfastLyon
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastLyon
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1026
Coast distance1 km253 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 23 points.23
BelfastLyon
Score5679
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3140
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 26 points.26
BelfastLyon
Score2955
Museums within 10 km1853
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %3347
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
BelfastLyon
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km550866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6371
Nightclubs within 4 km2947
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 20 points.20
BelfastLyon
Score5333
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %136
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
BelfastLyon
Score4859
Tourist attractions within 2 km1625
Park area within 2 km68 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 12 points.12
BelfastLyon
Score4254
Notable places within 2 km4386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
BelfastLyon
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 13 points.13
BelfastLyon
Score5164
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months00
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 0 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureBelfastLyon
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m160 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastLyon
City population345,006519,127
People per km²3,00010,838
Museums within 10 km842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre44148
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.