VacationSelector

Belfast or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

BelfastVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
BelfastVancouver
Score4860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 18 points.18
BelfastVancouver
Score5674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
BelfastVancouver
Score2934
Museums within 10 km1827
Museums within 2 km of centre615
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
BelfastVancouver
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km550848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6371
Nightclubs within 4 km2944
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 24 points.24
BelfastVancouver
Score5377
Protected land share 50 km %1919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6560
Park area within 2 km68 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
BelfastVancouver
Score4853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km68 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 6 points.6
BelfastVancouver
Score4248
Notable places within 2 km4363
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast and Vancouver are level on 54.
BelfastVancouver
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Vancouver leads by 2 points.2
BelfastVancouver
Score5153
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
CalgaryYYC
8 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€73-86
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 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

MeasureBelfastVancouver
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastVancouver
City population345,006662,248
People per km²3,0005,759
Museums within 10 km826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4485
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.