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Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Killarney or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Killarney for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Killarney 22, Nashville 14: Killarney leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Killarney 33, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Killarney 28, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Killarney 32, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Killarney 82, Nashville 46: Killarney leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Killarney 58, Nashville 52: Killarney leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Killarney 42, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Killarney 47, Nashville 30: Killarney leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Killarney 22, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Killarney 35, Nashville 30: Killarney leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Killarney 35, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Killarney 42, Nashville 20: Killarney leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Killarney and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Killarney
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
Best match
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Killarney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
88 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Killarney's temperatures are measured 53 km from the centre, at Valentia Observatory.

Killarney has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKillarneyNashville
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m182 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyNashville
City population14,412689,447
People per km²-506
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.