VacationSelector

Brussels or Killarney?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
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.

BrusselsKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
BrusselsKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance56 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 59 points.59
BrusselsKillarney
Score8122
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,77965
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4415
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 70 points.70
BrusselsKillarney
Score8010
Museums within 10 km1200
Museums within 2 km of centre590
Share of museums within 2 km %49
Unesco sites within 50 km100
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 65 points.65
BrusselsKillarney
Score683
Drinking venues within 4 km1,41472
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre86257
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6179
Nightclubs within 4 km840
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 22 points.22
BrusselsKillarney
Score319
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km65 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 48 points.48
BrusselsKillarney
Score568
Tourist attractions within 2 km284
Park area within 2 km65 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 63 points.63
BrusselsKillarney
Score7310
Notable places within 2 km2547
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsKillarney
Score6057
Price level global76.280.2
Daily budget€180€187
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 9 points.9
BrusselsKillarney
Score5748
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsKillarney
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
€177-223
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 35 m
no fares
CRL · 43 km
1 h 20 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

MeasureBrusselsKillarney
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, 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
Elevation70 m50 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsKillarney
City population195,54614,412
People per km²5,908
Museums within 10 km1051
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km100
Distinct cuisines in the centre10919
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.