VacationSelector

Istanbul or Killarney?

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

Your match

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

IstanbulKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 20 points.20
IstanbulKillarney
Score4323
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km26
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 48 points.48
IstanbulKillarney
Score7022
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,08665
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 56 points.56
IstanbulKillarney
Score6610
Museums within 10 km1450
Museums within 2 km of centre710
Share of museums within 2 km %49
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 76 points.76
IstanbulKillarney
Score793
Drinking venues within 4 km2,26672
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,17657
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5279
Nightclubs within 4 km2210
Nature & day trips. Istanbul leads by 16 points.16
IstanbulKillarney
Score259
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4886
Park area within 2 km60 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 59 points.59
IstanbulKillarney
Score678
Tourist attractions within 2 km684
Park area within 2 km60 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 65 points.65
IstanbulKillarney
Score7510
Notable places within 2 km2857
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 32 points.32
IstanbulKillarney
Score8957
Price level global35.280.2
Daily budget€100€187
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 21 points.21
IstanbulKillarney
Score6948
Monthly daytime high9.2 °C to 29.7 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 101 mm91 mm to 187 mm
Dry months40
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
2
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. Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIstanbulKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
MalagaAGP
4 h 5 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 0 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
IzmirADB
1 h 5 m
€49-61
IST · 36 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
4 h 5 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
9 h 45 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€137-196
IST · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 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

MeasureIstanbulKillarney
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m50 m
Main airportİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIstanbulKillarney
City population15,655,92414,412
People per km²2,930
Museums within 10 km721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6219
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. 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). 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. 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.