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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Cork or Florence?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cork for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’s own page.

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cork 25, Florence 14: Cork leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Florence 74: Florence leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Florence 94: Florence leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Florence 42: Florence leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Florence 58: Cork leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Florence 98: Florence leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Florence 45: Cork leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Florence 78: Florence leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Florence 72: Florence leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Florence 35: Florence leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Florence 58: Florence leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Florence 42: Florence leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Florence.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkFlorence
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkFlorence
City population222,333360,930
People per km²5,9613,528
Museums within 10 km5141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.