VacationSelector

Killarney or Melbourne?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KillarneyMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 32 points.32
KillarneyMelbourne
Score2355
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km619
Coast distance18 km4 km
Water distance18 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 53 points.53
KillarneyMelbourne
Score2275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre651,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1529
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 39 points.39
KillarneyMelbourne
Score1049
Museums within 10 km042
Museums within 2 km of centre024
Share of museums within 2 km %—57
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 71 points.71
KillarneyMelbourne
Score374
Drinking venues within 4 km721,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre571,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7962
Nightclubs within 4 km0124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyMelbourne
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8681
Park area within 2 km13 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 52 points.52
KillarneyMelbourne
Score860
Tourist attractions within 2 km426
Park area within 2 km13 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 47 points.47
KillarneyMelbourne
Score1057
Notable places within 2 km7103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 7 points.7
KillarneyMelbourne
Score5750
Price level global80.290.2
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 28 points.28
KillarneyMelbourne
Score4876
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureKillarneyMelbourne
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation50 m31 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyMelbourne
City population14,4125,350,705
People per km²–535
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1986
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.