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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cork or Valparaiso?

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

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Valparaiso 50: Cork leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Valparaiso 60: Cork leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Valparaiso 63: Cork leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Valparaiso 33: Cork leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Valparaiso 44: Cork leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Valparaiso 30: Cork leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Valparaiso 38: Cork leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Valparaiso 18: Cork leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cork
45match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkValparaiso
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkValparaiso
City population222,333296,655
People per km²5,9616,180
Museums within 10 km517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.