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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork or Myrtle Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Myrtle Beach 38: Cork leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Myrtle Beach 20: Cork leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Myrtle Beach 42: Myrtle Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Myrtle Beach 46: Cork leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Myrtle Beach 50: Cork leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Myrtle Beach 18: Cork leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Myrtle Beach 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Myrtle Beach 30: Cork leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Myrtle Beach 28: Myrtle Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on beaches 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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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.

Myrtle Beach 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). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkMyrtle Beach
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m8 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkMyrtle Beach
City population222,33335,682
People per km²5,961591
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.