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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cork or Ocean City, Maryland?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Cork leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Cork leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Cork leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Cork leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Cork leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Cork leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork and Ocean City, Maryland are level on 22.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Ocean City, Maryland.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CorkOcean City, Maryland

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.

Ocean City, Maryland 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). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkOcean City, Maryland
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 m2 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkOcean City, Maryland
City population222,3336,844
People per km²5,96173
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.