VacationSelector

Budapest or Killarney?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BudapestKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
BudapestKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km66
Coast distance10,000 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 55 points.55
BudapestKillarney
Score7722
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,69965
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 54 points.54
BudapestKillarney
Score6410
Museums within 10 km1440
Museums within 2 km of centre640
Share of museums within 2 km %44
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 69 points.69
BudapestKillarney
Score723
Drinking venues within 4 km1,76572
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,16857
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6679
Nightclubs within 4 km970
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 31 points.31
BudapestKillarney
Score409
Protected land share 50 km %81
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km111 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 63 points.63
BudapestKillarney
Score718
Tourist attractions within 2 km754
Park area within 2 km111 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 59 points.59
BudapestKillarney
Score6910
Notable places within 2 km2067
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
BudapestKillarney
Score8057
Price level global4880.2
Daily budget€104€187
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BudapestKillarney
Score6448
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestKillarney
Official languageHungarianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m50 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestKillarney
City population1,685,20914,412
People per km²3,209
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8619
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). 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. 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.

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.