VacationSelector

Bath or Killarney?

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

Your match

Bath
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bath if you want museums, a walkable centre dense with notable buildings, places to eat and drink after dark, and countryside with 28% of the surrounding land protected.

Choose Killarney if the sea matters more: 6 beaches nearby and the coast 18km from the centre, and if you accept far more rain in every season and much less to do indoors.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 15 points.15
BathKillarney
Score823
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance29 km18 km
Water distance29 km18 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 24 points.24
BathKillarney
Score4622
Restaurants within 2 km of centre24565
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 37 points.37
BathKillarney
Score4710
Museums within 10 km200
Museums within 2 km of centre140
Share of museums within 2 km %70—
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bath leads by 33 points.33
BathKillarney
Score363
Drinking venues within 4 km32072
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24057
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7579
Nightclubs within 4 km110
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 35 points.35
BathKillarney
Score449
Protected land share 50 km %281
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9286
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 32 points.32
BathKillarney
Score408
Tourist attractions within 2 km144
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 22 points.22
BathKillarney
Score3210
Notable places within 2 km257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
BathKillarney
Score5457
Price level global84.980.2
Daily budget—€187
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 7 points.7
BathKillarney
Score5548
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

Where they differ

Bath has museums where Killarney has none, and 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach. It has many times as many places to drink, nightclubs among them, and about three times as many restaurants near the centre. The countryside is also more protected: 28% of the land around Bath against 1% around Killarney.

Killarney is closer to the sea, 18km from the centre against Bath's 29km, and has 6 beaches nearby where Bath has 1.

Where they are alike

Value for money is the axis where the two sit closest; neither pulls ahead, so the decision rests elsewhere.

Weather and swimming are close as well. Bath runs slightly warmer across the year, 7-21°C against Killarney's 10-18°C, but neither gets hot, and neither has a sea month reaching 21°C. Both put the coast at a drive from the centre, 29km for Bath and 18km for Killarney.

Which traveller are you?

If you travel for museums and architecture, Bath is the clear choice: it has museums where Killarney has none, 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and about three times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Killarney suits swimmers and beach walkers: more beaches nearby than Bath, and the coast 18km from the centre, though the sea peaks at 16°C in August.

Families and anyone wanting an evening out are better served in Bath, with about three times as many attractions near the centre, 1 theme park within reach, and nightclubs, which Killarney has none of.

What the numbers don't tell you

No cost comparison is possible here. The data carries a daily budget for Killarney and none at all for Bath, so nothing in it supports calling either the cheaper trip; the value ranking rests on a separate measure both cities do have. Treat the budget question as one to check yourself.

Killarney's coastal lead is about beach count and the 18km to reach them, not swimming comfort: the sea peaks at 16°C in August, and its warmest months are also among its wetter ones. Bath's protected countryside describes the land around the city, not what sits at the end of the street.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bath is the better bet from June to August, when highs reach 19-21°C and rainfall sits at 54-66mm, among its drier stretches. October and November are the wettest, 83-87mm.

Killarney's window is May to August, peaking in August at 18°C, though it stays wetter throughout: May is its driest at 91mm and midsummer runs 114-115mm. Winters are milder there, around 10°C in January, but the wet is relentless, with 178mm in both December and January.

Getting there

Flying fromBathKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ReusREU
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
ORK · 74 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

MeasureBathKillarney
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m50 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathKillarney
City population94,09214,412
People per km²3,245–
Museums within 10 km171
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3819
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.