VacationSelector

Bologna or Killarney?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BolognaKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
BolognaKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km26
Coast distance74 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 36 points.36
BolognaKillarney
Score5822
Restaurants within 2 km of centre82265
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 57 points.57
BolognaKillarney
Score6710
Museums within 10 km580
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %74
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 50 points.50
BolognaKillarney
Score533
Drinking venues within 4 km72072
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre53157
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7479
Nightclubs within 4 km300
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 30 points.30
BolognaKillarney
Score399
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km119 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 47 points.47
BolognaKillarney
Score558
Tourist attractions within 2 km324
Park area within 2 km119 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 50 points.50
BolognaKillarney
Score6010
Notable places within 2 km1207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaKillarney
Score6857
Price level global64.980.2
Daily budget€155€187
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 19 points.19
BolognaKillarney
Score6748
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 118 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 118 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 0 m
€39-68
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaKillarney
Official languageItalianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m50 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaKillarney
City population387,97114,412
People per km²2,754
Museums within 10 km661
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6219
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.