VacationSelector

Cork or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cork
✓ Best match
38
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

CorkInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkInterlaken
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance3 km713 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 21 points.21
CorkInterlaken
Score5029
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Cork and Interlaken are level on 23.
CorkInterlaken
Score2323
Museums within 10 km105
Museums within 2 km of centre82
Share of museums within 2 km %8040
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cork leads by 34 points.34
CorkInterlaken
Score384
Drinking venues within 4 km36142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre29238
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8190
Nightclubs within 4 km93
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 25 points.25
CorkInterlaken
Score5227
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 13 points.13
CorkInterlaken
Score2714
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km48 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cork and Interlaken are level on 22.
CorkInterlaken
Score2222
Notable places within 2 km1414
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 22 points.22
CorkInterlaken
Score5735
Price level global80.2110.5
Daily budget€187€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 8 points.8
CorkInterlaken
Score4957
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BSL · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureCorkInterlaken
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m571 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkInterlaken
City population222,3336,123
People per km²5,9611,424
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4922
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. 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.