VacationSelector

Cork or Faro?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and 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.

CorkFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 33 points.33
CorkFaro
Score2861
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 6 points.6
CorkFaro
Score5044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 1 points.1
CorkFaro
Score2322
Museums within 10 km109
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %8089
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cork leads by 17 points.17
CorkFaro
Score3821
Drinking venues within 4 km361143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8186
Nightclubs within 4 km98
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 5 points.5
CorkFaro
Score5257
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7442
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 9 points.9
CorkFaro
Score2736
Tourist attractions within 2 km710
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Cork and Faro are level on 22.
CorkFaro
Score2222
Notable places within 2 km1414
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 17 points.17
CorkFaro
Score5774
Price level global80.255.9
Daily budget€187€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 34 points.34
CorkFaro
Score4983
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BristolBRS
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureCorkFaro
Official languageEnglish, IrishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkFaro
City population222,33364,560
People per km²5,961319
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4934
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.