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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower, Prague
PragueCharles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Prague by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Prague?

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
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Prague for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Prague’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, Prague 10: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Belfast and Prague are level on 50.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Prague 83: Prague leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Prague 65: Prague leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Prague 58: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Prague 77: Prague leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Prague 50: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Prague 83: Prague leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Prague 50: Prague leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Prague 62: Prague leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Prague 76: Prague leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Prague 40: Prague leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Prague.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Prague
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Prague in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastPrague
Official languageEnglishCzech
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Czech Koruna (CZK)
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 m235 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre178 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastPrague
City population345,0061,397,880
People per km²3,0002,817
Museums within 10 km888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.