VacationSelector

Killarney or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KillarneyParis
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
KillarneyParis
Score230
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km62
Coast distance18 km149 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 68 points.68
KillarneyParis
Score2290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre654,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1533
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 66 points.66
KillarneyParis
Score1076
Museums within 10 km0185
Museums within 2 km of centre065
Share of museums within 2 km %35
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 85 points.85
KillarneyParis
Score388
Drinking venues within 4 km723,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre571,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7945
Nightclubs within 4 km0201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 39 points.39
KillarneyParis
Score948
Protected land share 50 km %128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %86100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 67 points.67
KillarneyParis
Score875
Tourist attractions within 2 km489
Park area within 2 km13 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 84 points.84
KillarneyParis
Score1094
Notable places within 2 km7865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 5 points.5
KillarneyParis
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 18 points.18
KillarneyParis
Score4866
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyParis
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€115-156
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 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

MeasureKillarneyParis
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 m27 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyParis
City population14,4122,103,778
People per km²19,960
Museums within 10 km1251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre19169
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.