VacationSelector

Killarney or Shanghai?

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.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

KillarneyShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 6 points.6
KillarneyShanghai
Score2317
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance18 km18 km
Water distance18 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 35 points.35
KillarneyShanghai
Score1045
Museums within 10 km0108
Museums within 2 km of centre028
Share of museums within 2 km %—26
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 33 points.33
KillarneyShanghai
Score942
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8682
Park area within 2 km13 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 73 points.73
KillarneyShanghai
Score881
Tourist attractions within 2 km486
Park area within 2 km13 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km010
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 41 points.41
KillarneyShanghai
Score1051
Notable places within 2 km773
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 22 points.22
KillarneyShanghai
Score5779
Price level global80.249
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
KillarneyShanghai
Score4865
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyShanghai
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureKillarneyShanghai
Official languageEnglish, IrishPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation50 m4 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyShanghai
City population14,41224,870,895
People per km²–3,922
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1964
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.