VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Killarney?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
EdinburghKillarney
Score5523
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km206
Coast distance3 km18 km
Water distance3 km18 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 48 points.48
EdinburghKillarney
Score7022
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,02365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 47 points.47
EdinburghKillarney
Score5710
Museums within 10 km300
Museums within 2 km of centre220
Share of museums within 2 km %73
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 61 points.61
EdinburghKillarney
Score643
Drinking venues within 4 km1,19372
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7479
Nightclubs within 4 km650
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 26 points.26
EdinburghKillarney
Score359
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8586
Park area within 2 km166 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 64 points.64
EdinburghKillarney
Score728
Tourist attractions within 2 km874
Park area within 2 km166 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 50 points.50
EdinburghKillarney
Score6010
Notable places within 2 km1267
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghKillarney
Score5457
Price level global84.980.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Edinburgh leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghKillarney
Score5148
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm91 mm to 187 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
4 h 20 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 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

MeasureEdinburghKillarney
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m50 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghKillarney
City population488,05014,412
People per km²1,884
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7819
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.