VacationSelector

Cannes or Killarney?

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

Your match

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CannesKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 50 points.50
CannesKillarney
Score7323
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km686
Coast distance1 km18 km
Water distance1 km18 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 28 points.28
CannesKillarney
Score5022
Restaurants within 2 km of centre47365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1915
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 26 points.26
CannesKillarney
Score3610
Museums within 10 km310
Museums within 2 km of centre50
Share of museums within 2 km %16
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 25 points.25
CannesKillarney
Score283
Drinking venues within 4 km18872
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8779
Nightclubs within 4 km190
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 24 points.24
CannesKillarney
Score339
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5386
Park area within 2 km13 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Cannes leads by 17 points.17
CannesKillarney
Score258
Tourist attractions within 2 km74
Park area within 2 km13 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 46 points.46
CannesKillarney
Score5610
Notable places within 2 km957
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesKillarney
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 26 points.26
CannesKillarney
Score7448
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months30
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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
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
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesKillarney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCannesKillarney
Official languageFrenchEnglish, 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
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKillarney
City population74,35014,412
People per km²3,793
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3819
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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). 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. 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.