VacationSelector

Belfast or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelfastParis
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastParis
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km102
Coast distance1 km149 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 34 points.34
BelfastParis
Score5690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4324,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3133
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 47 points.47
BelfastParis
Score2976
Museums within 10 km18185
Museums within 2 km of centre665
Share of museums within 2 km %3335
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 40 points.40
BelfastParis
Score4888
Drinking venues within 4 km5503,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3481,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6345
Nightclubs within 4 km29201
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 5 points.5
BelfastParis
Score5348
Protected land share 50 km %1928
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1326
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 27 points.27
BelfastParis
Score4875
Tourist attractions within 2 km1689
Park area within 2 km68 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 52 points.52
BelfastParis
Score4294
Notable places within 2 km43865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
BelfastParis
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 15 points.15
BelfastParis
Score5166
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureBelfastParis
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 m27 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastParis
City population345,0062,103,778
People per km²3,00019,960
Museums within 10 km8251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre44169
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. 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.