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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork or Santa Teresa, Costa Rica?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Santa Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’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, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 84: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4: Cork leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30: Cork leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Cork leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35: Cork leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15: Cork leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Cork leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25: Cork leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8: Cork leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CorkSanta Teresa, Costa Rica

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.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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). Santa Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m19 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
City population222,333-
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.