VacationSelector

Belfast or Nice?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
✓ 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.

BelfastNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 25 points.25
BelfastNice
Score4873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1070
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 13 points.13
BelfastNice
Score5669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3128
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 17 points.17
BelfastNice
Score2946
Museums within 10 km1827
Museums within 2 km of centre614
Share of museums within 2 km %3352
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 4 points.4
BelfastNice
Score4844
Drinking venues within 4 km550428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6391
Nightclubs within 4 km2926
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 4 points.4
BelfastNice
Score5357
Protected land share 50 km %1924
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1320
Land share of disc %6562
Park area within 2 km68 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastNice
Score4830
Tourist attractions within 2 km164
Park area within 2 km68 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 5 points.5
BelfastNice
Score4247
Notable places within 2 km4360
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
BelfastNice
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 23 points.23
BelfastNice
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureBelfastNice
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastNice
City population345,006357,737
People per km²3,0004,975
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4465
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.