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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Belfast or Mexico City?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Mexico City 50: Belfast leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Belfast and Mexico City are level on 58.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Mexico City 50: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Mexico City 40: Mexico City leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Mexico City.

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.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastMexico City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastMexico City
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-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m2,240 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastMexico City
City population345,0069,209,944
People per km²3,0006,202
Museums within 10 km8108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.