VacationSelector

Belfast or New York?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BelfastNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 16 points.16
BelfastNew York
Score4864
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1017
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 39 points.39
BelfastNew York
Score5695
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4326,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3138
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 31 points.31
BelfastNew York
Score2960
Museums within 10 km18119
Museums within 2 km of centre631
Share of museums within 2 km %3326
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 41 points.41
BelfastNew York
Score4889
Drinking venues within 4 km5504,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3482,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6348
Nightclubs within 4 km29192
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 14 points.14
BelfastNew York
Score5339
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6569
Park area within 2 km68 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 24 points.24
BelfastNew York
Score4872
Tourist attractions within 2 km1637
Park area within 2 km68 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 32 points.32
BelfastNew York
Score4274
Notable places within 2 km43268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastNew York
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 7 points.7
BelfastNew York
Score5158
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureBelfastNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastNew York
City population345,0068,804,190
People per km²3,0007,256
Museums within 10 km8157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre44132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.