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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
LyonThe Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lyon by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Belfast or Lyon?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Lyon for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Lyon’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, Lyon 12: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Lyon 84: Lyon leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Lyon 58: Lyon leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Lyon 64: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Lyon 62: Lyon leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Lyon 58: Lyon leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Lyon 42: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Lyon 68: Lyon leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Lyon 40: Lyon leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Lyon.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Lyon
Best match
60match

Wins on food and drink 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

Lyon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre25 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre141 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 km843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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. 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.

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.