VacationSelector

Killarney or New York?

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.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

KillarneyNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 41 points.41
KillarneyNew York
Score2364
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km617
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance18 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 73 points.73
KillarneyNew York
Score2295
Restaurants within 2 km of centre656,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1538
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 50 points.50
KillarneyNew York
Score1060
Museums within 10 km0119
Museums within 2 km of centre031
Share of museums within 2 km %26
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 86 points.86
KillarneyNew York
Score389
Drinking venues within 4 km724,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre572,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7948
Nightclubs within 4 km0192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 30 points.30
KillarneyNew York
Score939
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8669
Park area within 2 km13 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 64 points.64
KillarneyNew York
Score872
Tourist attractions within 2 km437
Park area within 2 km13 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 64 points.64
KillarneyNew York
Score1074
Notable places within 2 km7268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyNew York
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. New York leads by 10 points.10
KillarneyNew York
Score4858
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyNew York
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 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

MeasureKillarneyNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyNew York
City population14,4128,804,190
People per km²7,256
Museums within 10 km1157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre19132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.