VacationSelector

Glasgow or Killarney?

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

Your match

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GlasgowKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowKillarney
Score3623
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km36
Coast distance3 km18 km
Water distance3 km18 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 41 points.41
GlasgowKillarney
Score6322
Restaurants within 2 km of centre74065
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 35 points.35
GlasgowKillarney
Score4510
Museums within 10 km320
Museums within 2 km of centre130
Share of museums within 2 km %41
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 60 points.60
GlasgowKillarney
Score633
Drinking venues within 4 km1,07872
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre65457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6179
Nightclubs within 4 km730
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 29 points.29
GlasgowKillarney
Score389
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9186
Park area within 2 km56 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 33 points.33
GlasgowKillarney
Score418
Tourist attractions within 2 km134
Park area within 2 km56 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 43 points.43
GlasgowKillarney
Score5310
Notable places within 2 km807
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
GlasgowKillarney
Score5457
Price level global84.980.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Killarney leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowKillarney
Score4348
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
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
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ArrecifeACE
4 h 15 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ReusREU
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 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

MeasureGlasgowKillarney
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
Elevation21 m50 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowKillarney
City population626,41014,412
People per km²190
Museums within 10 km291
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5419
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. 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. 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.