VacationSelector

Belfast or Toronto?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BelfastToronto
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 5 points.5
BelfastToronto
Score4843
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km1058
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 26 points.26
BelfastToronto
Score5682
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4322,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 14 points.14
BelfastToronto
Score2943
Museums within 10 km1835
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %3371
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
BelfastToronto
Score4869
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km29103
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
BelfastToronto
Score5326
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
BelfastToronto
Score4857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1623
Park area within 2 km68 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
BelfastToronto
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km43128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast and Toronto are level on 54.
BelfastToronto
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
BelfastToronto
Score5155
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Toronto
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
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureBelfastToronto
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastToronto
City population345,0062,794,356
People per km²3,0004,434
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre44102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.