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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Palm Springs

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Cork or Palm Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Cork leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Palm Springs 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Palm Springs 42: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Palm Springs 36: Cork leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Palm Springs 38: Cork leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Palm Springs 40: Cork leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Palm Springs 22: Cork leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Palm Springs 32: Cork leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Palm Springs 40: Cork leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 58 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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.

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkPalm Springs
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m146 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkPalm Springs
City population222,33344,575
People per km²5,961181
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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