VacationSelector

Belfast or Seattle?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelfastSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
BelfastSeattle
Score4860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10100
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 19 points.19
BelfastSeattle
Score5675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
BelfastSeattle
Score2936
Museums within 10 km1828
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %3361
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 9 points.9
BelfastSeattle
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km550873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6380
Nightclubs within 4 km2934
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 13 points.13
BelfastSeattle
Score5340
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6580
Park area within 2 km68 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastSeattle
Score4846
Tourist attractions within 2 km1617
Park area within 2 km68 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 10 points.10
BelfastSeattle
Score4252
Notable places within 2 km4376
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastSeattle
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 10 points.10
BelfastSeattle
Score5161
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBelfastSeattle
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m40 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSeattle
City population345,006737,015
People per km²3,0001,996
Museums within 10 km827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4478
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Belfast or Seattle somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.