VacationSelector

Cork or Thessaloniki?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cork
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
CorkThessaloniki
Score2855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork and Thessaloniki are level on 50.
CorkThessaloniki
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
CorkThessaloniki
Score2349
Museums within 10 km1034
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %8065
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
CorkThessaloniki
Score3867
Drinking venues within 4 km3611,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8157
Nightclubs within 4 km961
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
CorkThessaloniki
Score5265
Protected land share 50 km %—25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7483
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
CorkThessaloniki
Score2741
Tourist attractions within 2 km716
Park area within 2 km48 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.34
CorkThessaloniki
Score2256
Notable places within 2 km1498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
CorkThessaloniki
Score5774
Price level global80.255.8
Daily budget€187€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 23 points.23
CorkThessaloniki
Score4972
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCorkThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 55 m
€108-147
SKG · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 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

MeasureCorkThessaloniki
Official languageEnglish, IrishGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkThessaloniki
City population222,333309,617
People per km²5,96116,042
Museums within 10 km531
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4945
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.