VacationSelector

Cork or London?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
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.

CorkLondon
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkLondon
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km147
Coast distance3 km43 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. London leads by 38 points.38
CorkLondon
Score5088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2243,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3540
Museums & heritage. London leads by 49 points.49
CorkLondon
Score2372
Museums within 10 km10148
Museums within 2 km of centre849
Share of museums within 2 km %8033
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 57 points.57
CorkLondon
Score3895
Drinking venues within 4 km3615,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2922,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8146
Nightclubs within 4 km9312
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 12 points.12
CorkLondon
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %—16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %7497
Park area within 2 km48 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 48 points.48
CorkLondon
Score2775
Tourist attractions within 2 km785
Park area within 2 km48 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. London leads by 67 points.67
CorkLondon
Score2289
Notable places within 2 km14649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkLondon
Score5754
Price level global80.284.9
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. London leads by 14 points.14
CorkLondon
Score4963
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkLondon
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 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

MeasureCorkLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkLondon
City population222,3338,799,728
People per km²5,9615,598
Museums within 10 km5215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre49116
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.