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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Belfast or Salt Lake City?

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

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Salt Lake City 40: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Salt Lake City 42: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Salt Lake City 30: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Salt Lake City 34: Belfast leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Salt Lake City 42: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Salt Lake City 36: Belfast leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Salt Lake City 40: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast and Salt Lake City are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastSalt Lake City
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m1,288 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSalt Lake City
City population345,006199,723
People per km²3,000690
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.