VacationSelector

Killarney or Nice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Nice
✓ 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.

KillarneyNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 50 points.50
KillarneyNice
Score2373
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km670
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance18 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 47 points.47
KillarneyNice
Score2269
Restaurants within 2 km of centre651,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1528
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 36 points.36
KillarneyNice
Score1046
Museums within 10 km027
Museums within 2 km of centre014
Share of museums within 2 km %52
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Nice leads by 41 points.41
KillarneyNice
Score344
Drinking venues within 4 km72428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7991
Nightclubs within 4 km026
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 48 points.48
KillarneyNice
Score957
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %8662
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Nice leads by 22 points.22
KillarneyNice
Score830
Tourist attractions within 2 km44
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 37 points.37
KillarneyNice
Score1047
Notable places within 2 km760
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 5 points.5
KillarneyNice
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 26 points.26
KillarneyNice
Score4874
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureKillarneyNice
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m0 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyNice
City population14,412357,737
People per km²4,975
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1965
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.