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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cork or Nice?

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

Cork does not lead in any category we score.

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Nice 66: Nice leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Nice 64: Nice leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Nice 47: Nice leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Nice 80: Nice leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Nice 87: Nice leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Nice 57: Nice leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Nice 74: Nice leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Nice 55: Nice leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Nice 35: Nice leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork and Nice are level on 45.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Nice 40: Nice leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Nice.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkNice
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkNice
City population222,333357,737
People per km²5,9614,975
Museums within 10 km517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.