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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Halifax or Wellington?

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 Halifax for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Wellington for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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. Halifax 32, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Wellington 44: Wellington leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Wellington 45: Halifax leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Wellington 40: Halifax leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Wellington 33: Halifax leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Wellington 30: Wellington leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Wellington.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °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

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxWellington
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation28 m0 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxWellington
City population440,072216,200
People per km²80487
Museums within 10 km1512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.