VacationSelector

Cork or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 60 points.60
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score2888
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 13 points.13
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 6 points.6
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score2317
Museums within 10 km105
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %8060
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cork leads by 18 points.18
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score3820
Drinking venues within 4 km361132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre29290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8168
Nightclubs within 4 km910
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.17
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score5269
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7445
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 6 points.6
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score2721
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km48 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 10 points.10
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score2212
Notable places within 2 km148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 14 points.14
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.26
CorkWest Palm Beach
Score4975
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 2026-09 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

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 centre46 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4918
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.