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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Belfast or Valparaiso?

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

  • families
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Belfast and Valparaiso are level on 50.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Valparaiso 60: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Valparaiso 63: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Valparaiso 33: Belfast leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Valparaiso 44: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Valparaiso 30: Belfast leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Valparaiso 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Valparaiso 18: Belfast leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastValparaiso
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation3 m21 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastValparaiso
City population345,006296,655
People per km²3,0006,180
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.