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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cork or San Miguel de Allende?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Cork leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, San Miguel de Allende 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, San Miguel de Allende 40: Cork leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, San Miguel de Allende 32: Cork leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, San Miguel de Allende 48: Cork leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, San Miguel de Allende 40: Cork leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights 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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CorkSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1,900 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSan Miguel de Allende
City population222,33369,811
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.