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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
Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antibes or Killarney?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Killarney for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’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, Killarney 22: Antibes leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Killarney 33: Antibes leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Killarney 28: Antibes leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Killarney 32: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Killarney 82: Killarney leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Killarney 58: Antibes leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Killarney 42: Antibes leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Killarney 47: Antibes leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Killarney 22: Antibes leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Killarney 35: Killarney leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes and Killarney are level on 35.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Killarney 42: Killarney leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Killarney.

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.

Killarney
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

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

Killarney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
88 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °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

Killarney's temperatures are measured 53 km from the centre, at Valentia Observatory.

Killarney 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesKillarney
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 m50 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesKillarney
City population77,63714,412
People per km²2,930-
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.