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Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Killarney or Snowbird?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Killarney for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’s own page.

Choose Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Killarney 22, Snowbird 5: Killarney leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Killarney 33, Snowbird 20: Killarney leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Killarney 28, Snowbird 5: Killarney leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Killarney 32, Snowbird 9: Killarney leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Killarney 82, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Killarney 58, Snowbird 47: Killarney leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Killarney and Snowbird are level on 42.
Getting around. Killarney 47, Snowbird 40: Killarney leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Killarney 22, Snowbird 8: Killarney leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Killarney 35, Snowbird 15: Killarney leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Killarney 35, Snowbird 8: Killarney leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Killarney 42, Snowbird 40: Killarney leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Killarney and Snowbird.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Killarney
Best match
40match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Killarney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
88 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Killarney's temperatures are measured 53 km from the centre, at Valentia Observatory.

Killarney has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKillarneySnowbird
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m2,479 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneySnowbird
City population14,412-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.