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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Santa Teresa, Costa Rica?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Santa Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’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, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 84: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 40: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4: Belfast leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Belfast leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35: Belfast leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15: Belfast leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Belfast leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25: Belfast leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8: Belfast leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Santa Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m19 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
City population345,006-
People per km²3,000-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.