VacationSelector
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hurghada 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 Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Killarney for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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. Hurghada 84, Killarney 22: Hurghada leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, Killarney 33: Hurghada leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, Killarney 28: Killarney leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, Killarney 32: Hurghada leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, Killarney 82: Killarney leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, Killarney 58: Killarney leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, Killarney 42: Hurghada leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, Killarney 47: Killarney leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, Killarney 22: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, Killarney 35: Hurghada leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, Killarney 35: Killarney leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada 44, Killarney 42: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
0255075100

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

Your match

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

Hurghada
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Killarney
40match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
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

050100150200JFMAMJJASOND
HurghadaKillarney

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. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaKillarney
Official languageArabicEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation11 m50 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaKillarney
City population214,24714,412
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Hurghada 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.