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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Mazatlan?

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
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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, Mazatlan 80: Mazatlan leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Mazatlan 42: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Mazatlan 66: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Mazatlan 45: Belfast leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Mazatlan 60: Mazatlan leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Mazatlan 42: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Mazatlan 30: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Mazatlan 40: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Mazatlan 35: Mazatlan leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
51match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Mazatlan
52match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastMazatlan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastMazatlan
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m139 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastMazatlan
City population345,006441,975
People per km²3,000-
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.