VacationSelector

Cork or Inverness?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration 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.

CorkInverness
Beaches & swimming. Cork and Inverness are level on 28.
CorkInverness
Score2828
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 29 points.29
CorkInverness
Score5021
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkInverness
Score2320
Museums within 10 km106
Museums within 2 km of centre85
Share of museums within 2 km %8083
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cork leads by 23 points.23
CorkInverness
Score3815
Drinking venues within 4 km361113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre29298
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8187
Nightclubs within 4 km94
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 43 points.43
CorkInverness
Score529
Protected land share 50 km %—12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %7488
Park area within 2 km48 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 27 points.27
CorkInverness
Score270
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km48 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
CorkInverness
Score2224
Notable places within 2 km1416
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkInverness
Score5754
Price level global80.284.9
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Inverness leads by 3 points.3
CorkInverness
Score4952
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months01
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 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

MeasureCorkInverness
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 m7 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkInverness
City population222,33347,380
People per km²5,9612,289
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4915
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.