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The Esplanade boardwalk and its palms, Cairns
CairnsThe Esplanade boardwalk and its palms
The Mezquita and the Roman bridge, Cordoba
CordobaThe Mezquita and the Roman bridge

Photos: Cairns by Donaldytong, Public domain; Cordoba by Jose María Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cairns or Cordoba?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cairns for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairns’s own page.

Choose Cordoba for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cordoba’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cairns 62, Cordoba 14: Cairns leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Cairns 40, Cordoba 62: Cordoba leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cairns 22, Cordoba 81: Cordoba leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Cairns 42, Cordoba 40: Cairns leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairns 95, Cordoba 45: Cairns leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Cairns 45, Cordoba 86: Cordoba leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Cairns 66, Cordoba 40: Cairns leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Cairns 45, Cordoba 68: Cordoba leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cairns 28, Cordoba 38: Cordoba leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cairns 35, Cordoba 63: Cordoba leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairns 22, Cordoba 47: Cordoba leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairns 45, Cordoba 40: Cairns leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairns and Cordoba.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cairns
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Cordoba
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cairns in July

24 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
30 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Cordoba in July

37 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cairns's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Green Island Aws.

Cairns has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairns: 1993-2010 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Green Island Aws (27 km from centre). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairnsCordoba
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation7 m120 m
Main airportCairns International Airport (CNS)6 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairnsCordoba
City population146,778323,262
People per km²301258
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.