VacationSelector

Belfast or Orlando?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BelfastOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastOrlando
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 8 points.8
BelfastOrlando
Score5648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3121
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 21 points.21
BelfastOrlando
Score298
Museums within 10 km1811
Museums within 2 km of centre62
Share of museums within 2 km %3318
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 7 points.7
BelfastOrlando
Score4841
Drinking venues within 4 km550344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6363
Nightclubs within 4 km2939
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 9 points.9
BelfastOrlando
Score5344
Protected land share 50 km %1915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 41 points.41
BelfastOrlando
Score4889
Tourist attractions within 2 km16
Park area within 2 km68 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km220
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 26 points.26
BelfastOrlando
Score4216
Notable places within 2 km4310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastOrlando
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 23 points.23
BelfastOrlando
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Orlando
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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

MeasureBelfastOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastOrlando
City population345,006334,854
People per km²3,0001,086
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4430
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.