VacationSelector

Cork or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

CorkParis
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkParis
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance3 km149 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 40 points.40
CorkParis
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2244,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 53 points.53
CorkParis
Score2376
Museums within 10 km10185
Museums within 2 km of centre865
Share of museums within 2 km %8035
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 50 points.50
CorkParis
Score3888
Drinking venues within 4 km3613,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2921,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8145
Nightclubs within 4 km9201
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 4 points.4
CorkParis
Score5248
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 48 points.48
CorkParis
Score2775
Tourist attractions within 2 km789
Park area within 2 km48 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 72 points.72
CorkParis
Score2294
Notable places within 2 km14865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 5 points.5
CorkParis
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 17 points.17
CorkParis
Score4966
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Paris
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 35 m
€115-156
CDG · 22 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 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

MeasureCorkParis
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 m27 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkParis
City population222,3332,103,778
People per km²5,96119,960
Museums within 10 km5251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre49169
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.