VacationSelector

Hamburg or Killarney?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

HamburgKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
HamburgKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km166
Coast distance22 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 51 points.51
HamburgKillarney
Score7322
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,15065
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3815
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 50 points.50
HamburgKillarney
Score6010
Museums within 10 km940
Museums within 2 km of centre500
Share of museums within 2 km %53
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 65 points.65
HamburgKillarney
Score683
Drinking venues within 4 km1,33972
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre83457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6279
Nightclubs within 4 km1190
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 31 points.31
HamburgKillarney
Score409
Protected land share 50 km %141
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9986
Park area within 2 km89 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 52 points.52
HamburgKillarney
Score608
Tourist attractions within 2 km404
Park area within 2 km89 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 49 points.49
HamburgKillarney
Score5910
Notable places within 2 km1187
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
HamburgKillarney
Score6057
Price level global75.980.2
Daily budget€163€187
Year-round weather. Hamburg leads by 7 points.7
HamburgKillarney
Score5548
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months10
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ArrecifeACE
4 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
€415-451
2 stops
HAM · 9 km
3 h 55 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

MeasureHamburgKillarney
Official languageGermanEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m50 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgKillarney
City population1,910,16014,412
People per km²2,530
Museums within 10 km771
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8319
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. 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). 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. 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.