VacationSelector
The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Guilin or Killarney?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Guilin for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Guilin’s own page.

Choose Killarney for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Guilin 8, Killarney 22: Killarney leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Killarney 33: Guilin leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Killarney 28: Guilin leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Killarney 32: Killarney leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Killarney 82: Guilin leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Killarney 58: Killarney leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Killarney 42: Guilin leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Killarney 47: Killarney leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Killarney 22: Guilin leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Killarney 35: Guilin leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Killarney 35: Killarney leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Killarney 42: Killarney leads by 2 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Killarney.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Guilin
Best match
44match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Killarney
40match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Killarney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
88 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300400500JFMAMJJASOND
GuilinKillarney

Where the figures come from

Killarney's temperatures are measured 53 km from the centre, at Valentia Observatory.

Killarney has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinKillarney
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Irish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation153 m50 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinKillarney
City population4,931,13714,412
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Guilin or Killarney somewhere new.

Browse every destination

Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.