VacationSelector

Killarney or Lucerne?

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.

Lucerne
✓ Best match
33
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

KillarneyLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
KillarneyLucerne
Score230
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km616
Coast distance18 km669 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 25 points.25
KillarneyLucerne
Score2247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1525
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 30 points.30
KillarneyLucerne
Score1040
Museums within 10 km023
Museums within 2 km of centre013
Share of museums within 2 km %57
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Lucerne leads by 25 points.25
KillarneyLucerne
Score328
Drinking venues within 4 km72202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7975
Nightclubs within 4 km011
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 16 points.16
KillarneyLucerne
Score925
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %86100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 30 points.30
KillarneyLucerne
Score838
Tourist attractions within 2 km415
Park area within 2 km13 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 25 points.25
KillarneyLucerne
Score1035
Notable places within 2 km729
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 22 points.22
KillarneyLucerne
Score5735
Price level global80.2110.5
Daily budget€187€248
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
KillarneyLucerne
Score4853
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureKillarneyLucerne
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m436 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyLucerne
City population14,41286,234
People per km²2,963
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1946
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.