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Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Killarney or Laguna Beach?

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 Killarney for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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. Killarney 22, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Killarney 33, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Killarney 28, Laguna Beach 27: Killarney leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Killarney 32, Laguna Beach 18: Killarney leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Killarney 82, Laguna Beach 73: Killarney leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Killarney 58, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Killarney 42, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Killarney 47, Laguna Beach 33: Killarney leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Killarney 22, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Killarney 35, Laguna Beach 12: Killarney leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Killarney 35, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Killarney 42, Laguna Beach 47: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Killarney and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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

Killarney
40match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKillarneyLaguna Beach
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyLaguna Beach
City population14,41223,032
People per km²-907
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.