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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Porto?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Porto for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Porto 70: Porto leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Porto 68: Porto leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Porto 65: Porto leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Porto 64: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Porto 79: Porto leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Porto 52: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Porto 66: Porto leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Porto 52: Porto leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Porto 62: Porto leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Porto 52: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Porto 34: Porto leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Porto.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastPorto
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m104 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastPorto
City population345,006273,476
People per km²3,0006,606
Museums within 10 km842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.