VacationSelector

Belfast or Stockholm?

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 with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BelfastStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
BelfastStockholm
Score4860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1073
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
BelfastStockholm
Score5676
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3136
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 40 points.40
BelfastStockholm
Score2969
Museums within 10 km1874
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %3364
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
BelfastStockholm
Score4864
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6363
Nightclubs within 4 km29106
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 12 points.12
BelfastStockholm
Score5341
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6577
Park area within 2 km68 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
BelfastStockholm
Score4857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1623
Park area within 2 km68 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 37 points.37
BelfastStockholm
Score4279
Notable places within 2 km43357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
BelfastStockholm
Score5457
Price level global84.980.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
BelfastStockholm
Score5153
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureBelfastStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
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 m22 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastStockholm
City population345,006984,748
People per km²3,0005,260
Museums within 10 km8266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4481
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.