VacationSelector

Cork or Ghent?

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

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CorkGhent
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 2 points.2
CorkGhent
Score2826
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance3 km32 km
Water distance3 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
CorkGhent
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3549
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 35 points.35
CorkGhent
Score2358
Museums within 10 km1024
Museums within 2 km of centre820
Share of museums within 2 km %8083
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
CorkGhent
Score3849
Drinking venues within 4 km361570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8178
Nightclubs within 4 km926
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 18 points.18
CorkGhent
Score5234
Protected land share 50 km %—7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %7487
Park area within 2 km48 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 23 points.23
CorkGhent
Score2750
Tourist attractions within 2 km719
Park area within 2 km48 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 24 points.24
CorkGhent
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
CorkGhent
Score5760
Price level global80.276.2
Daily budget€187€180
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 7 points.7
CorkGhent
Score4956
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm35 mm to 79 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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCorkGhent
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
ANR · 54 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureCorkGhent
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkGhent
City population222,333272,657
People per km²5,9611,728
Museums within 10 km530
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre4983
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.