VacationSelector

Cork or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 56 points.56
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score2884
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 5 points.5
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score5045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3518
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score2320
Museums within 10 km1014
Museums within 2 km of centre86
Share of museums within 2 km %8043
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cork leads by 4 points.4
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score3834
Drinking venues within 4 km361259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8156
Nightclubs within 4 km918
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score5281
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7451
Park area within 2 km48 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 8 points.8
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score2719
Tourist attractions within 2 km72
Park area within 2 km48 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 22 points.22
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score220
Notable places within 2 km142
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 27 points.27
CorkFort Lauderdale
Score4976
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm55 mm to 219 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkFort Lauderdale
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€292-332
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureCorkFort Lauderdale
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkFort Lauderdale
City population222,333182,760
People per km²5,9611,829
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4925
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.