VacationSelector

Belfast or Warsaw?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BelfastWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastWarsaw
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1026
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 16 points.16
BelfastWarsaw
Score5672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 34 points.34
BelfastWarsaw
Score2963
Museums within 10 km18107
Museums within 2 km of centre660
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
BelfastWarsaw
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km29104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
BelfastWarsaw
Score5355
Protected land share 50 km %1927
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1319
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
BelfastWarsaw
Score4870
Tourist attractions within 2 km1642
Park area within 2 km68 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 34 points.34
BelfastWarsaw
Score4276
Notable places within 2 km43299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
BelfastWarsaw
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
BelfastWarsaw
Score5159
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months06
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureBelfastWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m118 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastWarsaw
City population345,0061,862,402
People per km²3,0003,601
Museums within 10 km8117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4476
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.