VacationSelector

Boston or Killarney?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BostonKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 37 points.37
BostonKillarney
Score6023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km686
Coast distance1 km18 km
Water distance1 km18 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 51 points.51
BostonKillarney
Score7322
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,45265
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 33 points.33
BostonKillarney
Score4310
Museums within 10 km790
Museums within 2 km of centre270
Share of museums within 2 km %34
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 55 points.55
BostonKillarney
Score583
Drinking venues within 4 km88672
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51357
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5879
Nightclubs within 4 km430
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 44 points.44
BostonKillarney
Score539
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7786
Park area within 2 km116 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 45 points.45
BostonKillarney
Score538
Tourist attractions within 2 km284
Park area within 2 km116 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 48 points.48
BostonKillarney
Score5810
Notable places within 2 km1117
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
BostonKillarney
Score4357
Price level global10080.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonKillarney
Score5648
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonKillarney
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
6 h 30 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 55 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

MeasureBostonKillarney
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
Elevation43 m50 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonKillarney
City population675,64714,412
People per km²2,910
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7419
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.