VacationSelector

Cork or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
CorkRotterdam
Score2837
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance3 km24 km
Water distance3 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
CorkRotterdam
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3546
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
CorkRotterdam
Score2360
Museums within 10 km1041
Museums within 2 km of centre820
Share of museums within 2 km %8049
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
CorkRotterdam
Score3849
Drinking venues within 4 km361542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8170
Nightclubs within 4 km940
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 10 points.10
CorkRotterdam
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7479
Park area within 2 km48 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 35 points.35
CorkRotterdam
Score2762
Tourist attractions within 2 km727
Park area within 2 km48 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
CorkRotterdam
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1474
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
CorkRotterdam
Score5758
Price level global80.279.2
Daily budget€187€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
CorkRotterdam
Score4956
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCorkRotterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureCorkRotterdam
Official languageEnglish, IrishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkRotterdam
City population222,333664,311
People per km²5,9612,080
Museums within 10 km540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre4977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.