VacationSelector

Cork or Glasgow?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 8 points.8
CorkGlasgow
Score2836
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance3 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
CorkGlasgow
Score5063
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 22 points.22
CorkGlasgow
Score2345
Museums within 10 km1032
Museums within 2 km of centre813
Share of museums within 2 km %8041
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 25 points.25
CorkGlasgow
Score3863
Drinking venues within 4 km3611,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8161
Nightclubs within 4 km973
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkGlasgow
Score5238
Protected land share 50 km %—16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %7491
Park area within 2 km48 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 14 points.14
CorkGlasgow
Score2741
Tourist attractions within 2 km713
Park area within 2 km48 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 31 points.31
CorkGlasgow
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1480
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkGlasgow
Score5754
Price level global80.284.9
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Cork leads by 6 points.6
CorkGlasgow
Score4943
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureCorkGlasgow
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkGlasgow
City population222,333626,410
People per km²5,961190
Museums within 10 km529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4954
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. 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.