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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Cork or Havana?

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 Cork for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’s own page.

Choose Havana for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cork 25, Havana 64: Havana leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Havana 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Havana 77: Havana leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Havana 60: Havana leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Havana 34: Cork leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Havana 38: Cork leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Havana 34: Cork leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Havana 38: Cork leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Havana 30: Cork leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Havana 58: Havana leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Havana 74: Havana leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork and Havana are level on 22.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Havana.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cork
45match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Havana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkHavana
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation0 m59 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkHavana
City population222,3332,492,618
People per km²5,9613,423
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.