VacationSelector

Berlin or Cork?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BerlinCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
BerlinCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance142 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinCork
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 56 points.56
BerlinCork
Score7923
Museums within 10 km20010
Museums within 2 km of centre818
Share of museums within 2 km %4180
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinCork
Score7638
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3481
Nightclubs within 4 km1359
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 3 points.3
BerlinCork
Score4952
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10074
Park area within 2 km141 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 49 points.49
BerlinCork
Score7627
Tourist attractions within 2 km547
Park area within 2 km141 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 62 points.62
BerlinCork
Score8422
Notable places within 2 km48614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinCork
Score6057
Price level global75.980.2
Daily budget€163€187
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 11 points.11
BerlinCork
Score6049
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm78 mm to 140 mm
Dry months30
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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F
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A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureBerlinCork
Official languageGermanEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinCork
City population3,782,202222,333
People per km²4,2445,961
Museums within 10 km1585
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8649
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.