VacationSelector

Cork or Pisa?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CorkPisa
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 7 points.7
CorkPisa
Score2821
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance3 km10 km
Water distance3 km10 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 16 points.16
CorkPisa
Score5034
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km359
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 32 points.32
CorkPisa
Score2355
Museums within 10 km1027
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %8081
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Cork leads by 10 points.10
CorkPisa
Score3828
Drinking venues within 4 km361232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8188
Nightclubs within 4 km93
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 13 points.13
CorkPisa
Score5239
Protected land share 50 km %—9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7465
Park area within 2 km48 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 20 points.20
CorkPisa
Score2747
Tourist attractions within 2 km720
Park area within 2 km48 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
CorkPisa
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
CorkPisa
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
CorkPisa
Score4970
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€83-161
PSA · 4 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureCorkPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkPisa
City population222,33388,737
People per km²5,961479
Museums within 10 km527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4929
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.