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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cork or Nashville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Cork leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Nashville 46: Cork leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Nashville 52: Cork leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Nashville 30: Cork leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Nashville 30: Cork leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Nashville 20: Cork leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Nashville.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkNashville
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m182 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkNashville
City population222,333689,447
People per km²5,961506
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.