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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Antibes or Cork?

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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Cork for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Antibes 80, Cork 25: Antibes leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Cork 58: Cork leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Cork 40: Antibes leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Antibes and Cork are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Cork 62: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Cork 68: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Cork 50: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Cork 58: Antibes leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Cork 40: Cork leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Cork 33: Cork leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Cork 45: Cork leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Cork 22: Antibes leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Cork.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesCork
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesCork
City population77,637222,333
People per km²2,9305,961
Museums within 10 km145
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.