VacationSelector

Inverness or Killarney?

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

Your match

Inverness
✓ Best match
25
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on good for families 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.

InvernessKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 5 points.5
InvernessKillarney
Score2823
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance1 km18 km
Water distance1 km18 km
Places to eat. Killarney leads by 1 points.1
InvernessKillarney
Score2122
Restaurants within 2 km of centre11465
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1115
Museums & heritage. Inverness leads by 10 points.10
InvernessKillarney
Score2010
Museums within 10 km60
Museums within 2 km of centre50
Share of museums within 2 km %83—
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Inverness leads by 12 points.12
InvernessKillarney
Score153
Drinking venues within 4 km11372
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9857
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8779
Nightclubs within 4 km40
Nature & day trips. Inverness and Killarney are level on 9.
InvernessKillarney
Score99
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8886
Park area within 2 km3 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Killarney leads by 8 points.8
InvernessKillarney
Score08
Tourist attractions within 2 km34
Park area within 2 km3 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 14 points.14
InvernessKillarney
Score2410
Notable places within 2 km167
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
InvernessKillarney
Score5457
Price level global84.980.2
Daily budget—€187
Year-round weather. Inverness leads by 4 points.4
InvernessKillarney
Score5248
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 15 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

MeasureInvernessKillarney
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
Elevation7 m50 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessKillarney
City population47,38014,412
People per km²2,289–
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1519
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.