VacationSelector

Killarney or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

KillarneyRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 14 points.14
KillarneyRotterdam
Score2337
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km622
Coast distance18 km24 km
Water distance18 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 50 points.50
KillarneyRotterdam
Score2272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1546
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 50 points.50
KillarneyRotterdam
Score1060
Museums within 10 km041
Museums within 2 km of centre020
Share of museums within 2 km %—49
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 46 points.46
KillarneyRotterdam
Score349
Drinking venues within 4 km72542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7970
Nightclubs within 4 km040
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 33 points.33
KillarneyRotterdam
Score942
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8679
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 54 points.54
KillarneyRotterdam
Score862
Tourist attractions within 2 km427
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
KillarneyRotterdam
Score1051
Notable places within 2 km774
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
KillarneyRotterdam
Score5758
Price level global80.279.2
Daily budget€187€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
KillarneyRotterdam
Score4856
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureKillarneyRotterdam
Official languageEnglish, IrishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation50 m10 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyRotterdam
City population14,412664,311
People per km²–2,080
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.