VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Killarney?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

BordeauxKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance18 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 46 points.46
BordeauxKillarney
Score6822
Restaurants within 2 km of centre97565
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 45 points.45
BordeauxKillarney
Score5510
Museums within 10 km350
Museums within 2 km of centre170
Share of museums within 2 km %49
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 45 points.45
BordeauxKillarney
Score483
Drinking venues within 4 km54672
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42757
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7879
Nightclubs within 4 km320
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 42 points.42
BordeauxKillarney
Score519
Protected land share 50 km %351
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8586
Park area within 2 km43 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 37 points.37
BordeauxKillarney
Score458
Tourist attractions within 2 km214
Park area within 2 km43 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 35 points.35
BordeauxKillarney
Score4510
Notable places within 2 km517
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxKillarney
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxKillarney
Score6848
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm91 mm to 187 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
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
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxKillarney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 10 m
no fares
EGC · 87 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 40 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBordeauxKillarney
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
Elevation1 m50 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxKillarney
City population267,99114,412
People per km²5,425
Museums within 10 km181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8119
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.