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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Belfast or Oaxaca?

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

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Oaxaca 40: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Oaxaca 62: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Oaxaca 65: Belfast leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Oaxaca 40: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Oaxaca 55: Belfast leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Oaxaca 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and prices 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 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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BelfastOaxaca

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastOaxaca
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 m1,555 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastOaxaca
City population345,006258,913
People per km²3,0003,028
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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.