VacationSelector

Cork or Frankfurt?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkFrankfurt
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance3 km327 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 20 points.20
CorkFrankfurt
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2241,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 46 points.46
CorkFrankfurt
Score2369
Museums within 10 km1079
Museums within 2 km of centre843
Share of museums within 2 km %8054
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 21 points.21
CorkFrankfurt
Score3859
Drinking venues within 4 km361931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8174
Nightclubs within 4 km956
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 12 points.12
CorkFrankfurt
Score5264
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 41 points.41
CorkFrankfurt
Score2768
Tourist attractions within 2 km745
Park area within 2 km48 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 39 points.39
CorkFrankfurt
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 3 points.3
CorkFrankfurt
Score5760
Price level global80.275.9
Daily budget€187€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 13 points.13
CorkFrankfurt
Score4962
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months01
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkFrankfurt
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 55 m
€128-178
FRA · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 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

MeasureCorkFrankfurt
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m101 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkFrankfurt
City population222,333775,790
People per km²5,9613,124
Museums within 10 km553
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre4971
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. 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.