Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Cork or Ghent?
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 Ghent for
- culture and sights
- day trips
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Ghent.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.
Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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
Ghent in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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.
Ghent 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.
Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Cork | Ghent |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | English, Irish | French, German, Dutch |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | G230 V, 50 Hz | CE230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC, UTC+1 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 0 m | 12 m |
| Main airport | Cork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations | Brussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 14 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Cork | Ghent |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 222,333 | 272,657 |
| People per km² | 5,961 | 1,728 |
| Museums within 10 km | 5 | 30 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 5 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | None |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Cork or Ghent somewhere new.