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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork or Interlaken?

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

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Interlaken 25: Cork leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Interlaken 8: Cork leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Interlaken 15: Cork leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Interlaken 22: Cork leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Interlaken 8: Cork leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Interlaken 15: Cork leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Interlaken 40: Interlaken leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Interlaken 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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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 centre47 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.

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.