VacationSelector

Killarney or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Killarney
21
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

KillarneyLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score230
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance18 km372 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 40 points.40
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score2262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1524
Museums & heritage. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score1019
Museums within 10 km024
Museums within 2 km of centre04
Share of museums within 2 km %17
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 55 points.55
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score358
Drinking venues within 4 km72793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7961
Nightclubs within 4 km090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 54 points.54
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score963
Protected land share 50 km %150
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %86100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 26 points.26
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score834
Tourist attractions within 2 km419
Park area within 2 km13 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 41 points.41
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score1051
Notable places within 2 km775
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 24 points.24
KillarneyLas Vegas
Score4872
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyLas Vegas
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
5 h 10 m
€236-259
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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

MeasureKillarneyLas Vegas
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 m610 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyLas Vegas
City population14,412641,903
People per km²1,843
Museums within 10 km121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1949
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.