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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Belfast or Valencia?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belfast 20, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Valencia 60: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast and Valencia are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Valencia.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastValencia
City population345,006840,792
People per km²3,0006,242
Museums within 10 km845
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.