VacationSelector

Killarney or Sorrento?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
✓ Best match
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KillarneySorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 54 points.54
KillarneySorrento
Score2377
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km678
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eat. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
KillarneySorrento
Score2219
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km155
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 27 points.27
KillarneySorrento
Score1037
Museums within 10 km07
Museums within 2 km of centre04
Share of museums within 2 km %57
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Sorrento leads by 19 points.19
KillarneySorrento
Score322
Drinking venues within 4 km72179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7973
Nightclubs within 4 km02
Nature & day trips. Sorrento leads by 14 points.14
KillarneySorrento
Score923
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8642
Park area within 2 km13 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Killarney leads by 3 points.3
KillarneySorrento
Score85
Tourist attractions within 2 km42
Park area within 2 km13 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Killarney and Sorrento are level on 10.
KillarneySorrento
Score1010
Notable places within 2 km77
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 11 points.11
KillarneySorrento
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 25 points.25
KillarneySorrento
Score4873
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKillarneySorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKillarneySorrento
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m50 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneySorrento
City population14,41215,407
People per km²1,541
Museums within 10 km15
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1911
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. 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.