VacationSelector

Faro or Killarney?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

FaroKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 38 points.38
FaroKillarney
Score6123
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km136
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroKillarney
Score4422
Restaurants within 2 km of centre25565
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2215
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroKillarney
Score2210
Museums within 10 km90
Museums within 2 km of centre80
Share of museums within 2 km %89
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroKillarney
Score213
Drinking venues within 4 km14372
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12357
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8679
Nightclubs within 4 km80
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 48 points.48
FaroKillarney
Score579
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4286
Park area within 2 km34 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroKillarney
Score368
Tourist attractions within 2 km104
Park area within 2 km34 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroKillarney
Score2210
Notable places within 2 km147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroKillarney
Score7457
Price level global55.980.2
Daily budget€109€187
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 35 points.35
FaroKillarney
Score8348
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFaroKillarney
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKillarney
City population64,56014,412
People per km²319
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3419
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.