VacationSelector

Cologne or Killarney?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

CologneKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
CologneKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km406
Coast distance256 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 50 points.50
CologneKillarney
Score7222
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,14265
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 50 points.50
CologneKillarney
Score6010
Museums within 10 km470
Museums within 2 km of centre270
Share of museums within 2 km %57
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 61 points.61
CologneKillarney
Score643
Drinking venues within 4 km1,10772
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre72757
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6679
Nightclubs within 4 km900
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 62 points.62
CologneKillarney
Score719
Protected land share 50 km %531
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km118 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 64 points.64
CologneKillarney
Score728
Tourist attractions within 2 km434
Park area within 2 km118 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 43 points.43
CologneKillarney
Score5310
Notable places within 2 km817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 3 points.3
CologneKillarney
Score6057
Price level global75.980.2
Daily budget€163€187
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 12 points.12
CologneKillarney
Score6048
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months00
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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneKillarney
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
4 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 50 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 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

MeasureCologneKillarney
Official languageGermanEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m50 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneKillarney
City population1,024,62114,412
People per km²2,530
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8419
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). 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. 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.