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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork or West Palm Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, West Palm Beach 52: Cork leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, West Palm Beach 36: Cork leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, West Palm Beach 58: Cork leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, West Palm Beach 55: Cork leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, West Palm Beach 38: Cork leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, West Palm Beach 23: Cork leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CorkWest Palm Beach

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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkWest Palm Beach
City population222,333117,415
People per km²5,961786
Museums within 10 km54
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.