Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for
- shopping
- food and drink
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’s own page.
Choose Killarney for
- prices
- nature and the outdoors
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.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Killarney.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.
Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.
What matters to you?
When should you go?
Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
Hong Kong in July
Killarney in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Hong Kong | Killarney |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Standard Chinese | English, Irish |
| Currency | Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | G220 V, 50 Hz | G230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Left |
| Time zone | UTC+8 | UTC, UTC+1 in summer |
| Emergency number | 999 | 112 |
| Elevation | 7 m | 50 m |
| Main airport | Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations | Kerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 17 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Hong Kong | Killarney |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 7,413,070 | 14,412 |
| Museums within 10 km | 39 | 1 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 8 months | None |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Hong Kong or Killarney somewhere new.