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Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Killarney or New Orleans?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose New Orleans for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Killarney leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Killarney 33, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Killarney 28, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Killarney 32, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Killarney 82, New Orleans 42: Killarney leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Killarney 58, New Orleans 52: Killarney leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Killarney 42, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Killarney 47, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Killarney 22, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Killarney 35, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Killarney 35, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Killarney 42, New Orleans 25: Killarney leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Killarney and New Orleans.

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.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KillarneyNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKillarneyNew Orleans
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 m-2 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyNew Orleans
City population14,412383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 months

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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.