VacationSelector

Killarney or Miami?

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.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KillarneyMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 72 points.72
KillarneyMiami
Score2395
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km620
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance18 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 43 points.43
KillarneyMiami
Score2265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1529
Museums & heritage. Miami leads by 13 points.13
KillarneyMiami
Score1023
Museums within 10 km028
Museums within 2 km of centre06
Share of museums within 2 km %21
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Miami leads by 47 points.47
KillarneyMiami
Score350
Drinking venues within 4 km72538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7953
Nightclubs within 4 km063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 63 points.63
KillarneyMiami
Score972
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8648
Park area within 2 km13 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 36 points.36
KillarneyMiami
Score844
Tourist attractions within 2 km414
Park area within 2 km13 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 32 points.32
KillarneyMiami
Score1042
Notable places within 2 km745
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyMiami
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 26 points.26
KillarneyMiami
Score4874
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
3 h 5 m
€274-342
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureKillarneyMiami
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m2 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyMiami
City population14,412442,241
People per km²3,046
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1939
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.