VacationSelector

Killarney or Malaga?

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

Your match

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

KillarneyMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 43 points.43
KillarneyMalaga
Score2366
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km621
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 47 points.47
KillarneyMalaga
Score2269
Restaurants within 2 km of centre651,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1534
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 43 points.43
KillarneyMalaga
Score1053
Museums within 10 km040
Museums within 2 km of centre035
Share of museums within 2 km %—88
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 51 points.51
KillarneyMalaga
Score354
Drinking venues within 4 km72715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7968
Nightclubs within 4 km045
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyMalaga
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8663
Park area within 2 km13 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 45 points.45
KillarneyMalaga
Score853
Tourist attractions within 2 km433
Park area within 2 km13 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 27 points.27
KillarneyMalaga
Score1037
Notable places within 2 km733
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyMalaga
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyMalaga
Score4882
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months05
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureKillarneyMalaga
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m18 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyMalaga
City population14,412599,063
People per km²–1,517
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1965
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.