VacationSelector

Killarney or Marrakech?

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 with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families 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.

KillarneyMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
KillarneyMarrakech
Score230
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance18 km134 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
KillarneyMarrakech
Score2254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1526
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyMarrakech
Score1044
Museums within 10 km022
Museums within 2 km of centre017
Share of museums within 2 km %77
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyMarrakech
Score337
Drinking venues within 4 km72282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7957
Nightclubs within 4 km032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
KillarneyMarrakech
Score952
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %86100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 45 points.45
KillarneyMarrakech
Score853
Tourist attractions within 2 km428
Park area within 2 km13 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 36 points.36
KillarneyMarrakech
Score1046
Notable places within 2 km755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
KillarneyMarrakech
Score5786
Price level global80.239.8
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
KillarneyMarrakech
Score4881
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm1 mm to 36 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
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 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

MeasureKillarneyMarrakech
Official languageEnglish, IrishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation50 m465 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyMarrakech
City population14,4121,002,697
People per km²4,360
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1956
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. 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.