VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Killarney?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

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

Killarney
21
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 61 points.61
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score8423
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km76
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score4522
Restaurants within 2 km of centre37165
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score2010
Museums within 10 km140
Museums within 2 km of centre60
Share of museums within 2 km %43
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 31 points.31
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score343
Drinking venues within 4 km25972
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre14457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5679
Nightclubs within 4 km180
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 72 points.72
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score819
Protected land share 50 km %201
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5186
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score198
Tourist attractions within 2 km24
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Killarney leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score010
Notable places within 2 km27
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score4357
Price level global10080.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleKillarney
Score7648
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleKillarney
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 0 m
€292-332
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleKillarney
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m50 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleKillarney
City population182,76014,412
People per km²1,829
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2519
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.