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Ireland

Killarney

Match

21

  • Beach first29
  • Culture first18
  • Food & nightlife18
  • Family trip26
  • Nature first25
  • Good weather28
  • On a budget27

The nine measures

Each scored 0 to 100 against fixed anchors, so a score means the same thing on every page. Open a row for the figures behind it.

Beaches & swimming. Scores 23 out of 100.23
Score23
Swim season months0
Beaches 10 km6
Coast distance18 km
Water distance18 km

Sea reaches 21 °C or more in 0 months, 6 beaches lie within 10 km, and the water is 18 km away.

Places to eat. Scores 22 out of 100.22
Score22
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km15

65 restaurants within 2 km of the centre, spread across an effective 15 kitchens.

Museums & heritage. Scores 10 out of 100.10
Score10
Museums within 10 km0
Museums within 2 km of centre0
Share of museums within 2 km %
Unesco sites within 50 km0

0 museums mapped within 10 km, and 0 whole UNESCO inscriptions within 50 km.

Nightlife. Scores 3 out of 100.3
Score3
Drinking venues within 4 km72
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %79
Nightclubs within 4 km0

72 places to drink within 4 km, 0 nightclubs among them, and 79% of the drinking venues within 2 km of the centre.

Nature & day trips. Scores 9 out of 100.9
Score9
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %0
Land share of disc %86
Park area within 2 km13 hectares

1% of the 50 km disc around the city is protected land, and there are 13 hectares of park within 2 km of the centre.

Good for families. Scores 8 out of 100.8
Score8
Tourist attractions within 2 km4
Park area within 2 km13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km0

4 tourist attractions within 2 km beside 13 hectares of park, and 0 theme parks within 30 km.

Sights concentration. Scores 10 out of 100.10
Score10
Notable places within 2 km7
Min wikipedia languages5

7 notable places within 2 km of the centre, counting places with a Wikipedia presence in at least five languages.

Value for money. Scores 57 out of 100.57
Score57
Price level global80.2
Daily budget€187

National price level of 80.2 against the United States at 100, scored on a fixed scale from 20, the cheapest countries anyone travels to, to 160, the most expensive. The estimated daily budget there is €187.

Year-round weather. Scores 48 out of 100.48
Score48
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months0

Daytime highs run 10-18 °C across the year, with 0 month(s) at 40 mm of rain or less.

0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month, shaded against this city's own year: the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest.

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Daytime high, °C
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
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. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
FaroFAO
2 h 40 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km

The busiest departure cities for Killarney, 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. 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.

Before you go

MeasureKillarney
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112
Elevation50 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarney
City population14,412
Museums within 10 km1
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km0
Distinct cuisines in the centre19
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Every destination we have measured.