VacationSelector

Belfast or Tampa?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BelfastTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 27 points.27
BelfastTampa
Score4875
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km1010
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastTampa
Score5654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastTampa
Score2927
Museums within 10 km1813
Museums within 2 km of centre610
Share of museums within 2 km %3377
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 9 points.9
BelfastTampa
Score4839
Drinking venues within 4 km550324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6370
Nightclubs within 4 km2926
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 23 points.23
BelfastTampa
Score5330
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6572
Park area within 2 km68 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastTampa
Score4830
Tourist attractions within 2 km163
Park area within 2 km68 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 21 points.21
BelfastTampa
Score4221
Notable places within 2 km4313
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 24 points.24
BelfastTampa
Score5175
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
6 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBelfastTampa
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m30 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastTampa
City population345,006384,959
People per km²3,000848
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4447
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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. 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.