VacationSelector

Belfast or Miami?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BelfastMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 47 points.47
BelfastMiami
Score4895
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1020
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 9 points.9
BelfastMiami
Score5665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 6 points.6
BelfastMiami
Score2923
Museums within 10 km1828
Museums within 2 km of centre66
Share of museums within 2 km %3321
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Miami leads by 2 points.2
BelfastMiami
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km550538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6353
Nightclubs within 4 km2963
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 19 points.19
BelfastMiami
Score5372
Protected land share 50 km %1916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6548
Park area within 2 km68 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 4 points.4
BelfastMiami
Score4844
Tourist attractions within 2 km1614
Park area within 2 km68 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Belfast and Miami are level on 42.
BelfastMiami
Score4242
Notable places within 2 km4345
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastMiami
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 23 points.23
BelfastMiami
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Miami
No sunshine record

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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
RaleighRDU
7 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
€156-181
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBelfastMiami
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastMiami
City population345,006442,241
People per km²3,0003,046
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4439
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. 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.