VacationSelector

Killarney or Santiago de Compostela?

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.

Santiago de Compostela
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score230
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance18 km26 km
Water distance18 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 26 points.26
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score2248
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1523
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 34 points.34
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score1044
Museums within 10 km016
Museums within 2 km of centre014
Share of museums within 2 km %88
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 33 points.33
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score336
Drinking venues within 4 km72306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7988
Nightclubs within 4 km013
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 37 points.37
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score946
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8692
Park area within 2 km13 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score827
Tourist attractions within 2 km42
Park area within 2 km13 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 32 points.32
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score1042
Notable places within 2 km744
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
KillarneySantiago de Compostela
Score4862
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago de Compostela
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
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKillarneySantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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

MeasureKillarneySantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
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
Elevation50 m260 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneySantiago de Compostela
City population14,412100,965
People per km²459
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1938
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.