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Atlanta or Cork?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on sights concentration and year-round weather with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AtlantaCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance373 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaCork
Score5950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Atlanta leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaCork
Score3523
Museums within 10 km4110
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %3980
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaCork
Score4938
Drinking venues within 4 km531361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5381
Nightclubs within 4 km469
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaCork
Score3152
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10074
Park area within 2 km113 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaCork
Score3227
Tourist attractions within 2 km27
Park area within 2 km113 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaCork
Score4022
Notable places within 2 km3914
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaCork
Score4357
Price level global10080.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaCork
Score6749
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm78 mm to 140 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 15 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
8 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaCork
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m0 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCork
City population498,715222,333
People per km²1,4335,961
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5649
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.