VacationSelector

Killarney or Paphos?

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.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

KillarneyPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 56 points.56
KillarneyPaphos
Score2379
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km627
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance18 km1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 22 points.22
KillarneyPaphos
Score2244
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
KillarneyPaphos
Score1022
Museums within 10 km08
Museums within 2 km of centre03
Share of museums within 2 km %38
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
KillarneyPaphos
Score330
Drinking venues within 4 km72224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7972
Nightclubs within 4 km011
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyPaphos
Score923
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8633
Park area within 2 km13 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 34 points.34
KillarneyPaphos
Score842
Tourist attractions within 2 km430
Park area within 2 km13 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Paphos leads by 9 points.9
KillarneyPaphos
Score1019
Notable places within 2 km712
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 13 points.13
KillarneyPaphos
Score5770
Price level global80.261.4
Daily budget€187€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 38 points.38
KillarneyPaphos
Score4886
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 8 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureKillarneyPaphos
Official languageEnglish, IrishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m72 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyPaphos
City population14,41235,961
People per km²1,987
Museums within 10 km14
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1936
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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.