VacationSelector

Catania or Cork?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

CataniaCork
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 30 points.30
CataniaCork
Score5828
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 1 points.1
CataniaCork
Score4950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 36 points.36
CataniaCork
Score5923
Museums within 10 km3410
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaCork
Score4738
Drinking venues within 4 km537361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km189
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 21 points.21
CataniaCork
Score3152
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6174
Park area within 2 km11 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaCork
Score3627
Tourist attractions within 2 km257
Park area within 2 km11 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 17 points.17
CataniaCork
Score3922
Notable places within 2 km3714
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 11 points.11
CataniaCork
Score6857
Price level global64.980.2
Daily budget€155€187
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 28 points.28
CataniaCork
Score7749
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm78 mm to 140 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
REG · 80 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
TurinTRN
1 h 55 m
€37-118
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 94 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

MeasureCataniaCork
Official languageItalianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaCork
City population311,584222,333
People per km²1,7045,961
Museums within 10 km255
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3049
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.