VacationSelector

Belfast or Split?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BelfastSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 25 points.25
BelfastSplit
Score4873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1087
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastSplit
Score5638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 23 points.23
BelfastSplit
Score2952
Museums within 10 km1818
Museums within 2 km of centre616
Share of museums within 2 km %3389
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 7 points.7
BelfastSplit
Score4841
Drinking venues within 4 km550379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6369
Nightclubs within 4 km2923
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 15 points.15
BelfastSplit
Score5338
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6562
Park area within 2 km68 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 22 points.22
BelfastSplit
Score4826
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km68 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Belfast and Split are level on 42.
BelfastSplit
Score4242
Notable places within 2 km4343
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
BelfastSplit
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 18 points.18
BelfastSplit
Score5169
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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.

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Daytime high, °C
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureBelfastSplit
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSplit
City population345,006160,577
People per km²3,000
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4431
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. 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. 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.