VacationSelector

Killarney or Seattle?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

KillarneySeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 37 points.37
KillarneySeattle
Score2360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6100
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance18 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 53 points.53
KillarneySeattle
Score2275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre651,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Seattle leads by 26 points.26
KillarneySeattle
Score1036
Museums within 10 km028
Museums within 2 km of centre017
Share of museums within 2 km %61
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 54 points.54
KillarneySeattle
Score357
Drinking venues within 4 km72873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7980
Nightclubs within 4 km034
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 31 points.31
KillarneySeattle
Score940
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8680
Park area within 2 km13 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 38 points.38
KillarneySeattle
Score846
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km13 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 42 points.42
KillarneySeattle
Score1052
Notable places within 2 km776
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Killarney leads by 14 points.14
KillarneySeattle
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
KillarneySeattle
Score4861
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneySeattle
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureKillarneySeattle
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m40 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneySeattle
City population14,412737,015
People per km²1,996
Museums within 10 km127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1978
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.