VacationSelector

Belfast or Toledo?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

BelfastToledo
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastToledo
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance1 km320 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 32 points.32
BelfastToledo
Score5624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km317
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 17 points.17
BelfastToledo
Score2946
Museums within 10 km1819
Museums within 2 km of centre619
Share of museums within 2 km %33100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 31 points.31
BelfastToledo
Score4817
Drinking venues within 4 km550120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6396
Nightclubs within 4 km295
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 25 points.25
BelfastToledo
Score5328
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 6 points.6
BelfastToledo
Score4854
Tourist attractions within 2 km1632
Park area within 2 km68 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 4 points.4
BelfastToledo
Score4246
Notable places within 2 km4355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 17 points.17
BelfastToledo
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 23 points.23
BelfastToledo
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 80 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€77-197
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureBelfastToledo
Official languageEnglishSpanish
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 m523 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastToledo
City population345,00687,216
People per km²3,000376
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4413
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.