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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Belfast or Samarkand?

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

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

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Samarkand 14: Belfast leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Samarkand 40: Belfast leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Samarkand 30: Belfast leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Samarkand 58: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Samarkand 42: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Samarkand 24: Belfast leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Samarkand 32: Samarkand leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Samarkand.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

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

Samarkand
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastSamarkand

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastSamarkand
Official languageEnglishUzbek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m702 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSamarkand
City population345,006546,303
People per km²3,0005,058
Museums within 10 km811
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. 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.