VacationSelector

Cork or Palermo?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 39 points.39
CorkPalermo
Score2867
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Cork and Palermo are level on 50.
CorkPalermo
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
CorkPalermo
Score2350
Museums within 10 km1032
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %8081
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 15 points.15
CorkPalermo
Score3853
Drinking venues within 4 km361799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8164
Nightclubs within 4 km916
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 16 points.16
CorkPalermo
Score5236
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7445
Park area within 2 km48 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
CorkPalermo
Score2741
Tourist attractions within 2 km716
Park area within 2 km48 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 35 points.35
CorkPalermo
Score2257
Notable places within 2 km14104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
CorkPalermo
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 28 points.28
CorkPalermo
Score4977
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkPalermo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
PisaPSA
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€47-105
PMO · 25 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureCorkPalermo
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkPalermo
City population222,333630,167
People per km²5,9613,924
Museums within 10 km542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4933
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.