VacationSelector

Geneva or Killarney?

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

Your match

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

GenevaKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
GenevaKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance279 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 48 points.48
GenevaKillarney
Score7022
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,02865
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 42 points.42
GenevaKillarney
Score5210
Museums within 10 km350
Museums within 2 km of centre200
Share of museums within 2 km %57
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 47 points.47
GenevaKillarney
Score503
Drinking venues within 4 km54972
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42757
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7879
Nightclubs within 4 km600
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 50 points.50
GenevaKillarney
Score599
Protected land share 50 km %271
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km182 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 57 points.57
GenevaKillarney
Score658
Tourist attractions within 2 km284
Park area within 2 km182 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 46 points.46
GenevaKillarney
Score5610
Notable places within 2 km997
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 22 points.22
GenevaKillarney
Score3557
Price level global110.580.2
Daily budget€248€187
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 11 points.11
GenevaKillarney
Score5948
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGenevaKillarney
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Irish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m50 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaKillarney
City population209,06114,412
People per km²13,148
Museums within 10 km351
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8019
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.