VacationSelector

Cancun or Killarney?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CancunKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 74 points.74
CancunKillarney
Score9723
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km236
Coast distance3 km18 km
Water distance3 km18 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 32 points.32
CancunKillarney
Score5422
Restaurants within 2 km of centre68165
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
CancunKillarney
Score2010
Museums within 10 km10
Museums within 2 km of centre10
Share of museums within 2 km %100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cancun leads by 33 points.33
CancunKillarney
Score363
Drinking venues within 4 km27072
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre17557
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6579
Nightclubs within 4 km330
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 45 points.45
CancunKillarney
Score549
Protected land share 50 km %91
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4586
Park area within 2 km66 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Cancun leads by 24 points.24
CancunKillarney
Score328
Tourist attractions within 2 km24
Park area within 2 km66 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Killarney leads by 6 points.6
CancunKillarney
Score410
Notable places within 2 km57
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 19 points.19
CancunKillarney
Score7657
Price level global54.280.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 33 points.33
CancunKillarney
Score8148
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months10
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 55 m
€345-392
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BirminghamBHX
9 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 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

MeasureCancunKillarney
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Irish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m50 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunKillarney
City population888,79714,412
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3119
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.