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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Belfast or Nashville?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Nashville 50: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Nashville 46: Belfast leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Nashville 52: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Nashville 55: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Nashville 30: Belfast leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Nashville 42: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Nashville 30: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Nashville 20: Belfast leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Nashville.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastNashville
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m182 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastNashville
City population345,006689,447
People per km²3,000506
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.