VacationSelector

Cork or Mexico City?

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 with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CorkMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkMexico City
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance3 km247 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
CorkMexico City
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2242,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 56 points.56
CorkMexico City
Score2379
Museums within 10 km10138
Museums within 2 km of centre865
Share of museums within 2 km %8047
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 40 points.40
CorkMexico City
Score3878
Drinking venues within 4 km3612,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8143
Nightclubs within 4 km9198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
CorkMexico City
Score5263
Protected land share 50 km %—30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
CorkMexico City
Score2750
Tourist attractions within 2 km723
Park area within 2 km48 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
CorkMexico City
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
CorkMexico City
Score5776
Price level global80.254.2
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
CorkMexico City
Score4990
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

MeasureCorkMexico City
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,240 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkMexico City
City population222,3339,209,944
People per km²5,9616,202
Museums within 10 km5108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre4950
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.