VacationSelector

Cork or Tampa?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

CorkTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 47 points.47
CorkTampa
Score2875
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
CorkTampa
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
CorkTampa
Score2327
Museums within 10 km1013
Museums within 2 km of centre810
Share of museums within 2 km %8077
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 1 points.1
CorkTampa
Score3839
Drinking venues within 4 km361324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8170
Nightclubs within 4 km926
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 22 points.22
CorkTampa
Score5230
Protected land share 50 km %—6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7472
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
CorkTampa
Score2730
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 1 points.1
CorkTampa
Score2221
Notable places within 2 km1413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkTampa
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 26 points.26
CorkTampa
Score4975
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm36 mm to 228 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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureCorkTampa
Official languageEnglish, Irish–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m30 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkTampa
City population222,333384,959
People per km²5,961848
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4947
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.