VacationSelector

Killarney or Tirana?

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.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

KillarneyTirana
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 6 points.6
KillarneyTirana
Score2317
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance18 km26 km
Water distance18 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 33 points.33
KillarneyTirana
Score2255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 15 points.15
KillarneyTirana
Score1025
Museums within 10 km012
Museums within 2 km of centre08
Share of museums within 2 km %67
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 55 points.55
KillarneyTirana
Score358
Drinking venues within 4 km72945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7972
Nightclubs within 4 km029
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 40 points.40
KillarneyTirana
Score949
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8683
Park area within 2 km13 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 44 points.44
KillarneyTirana
Score852
Tourist attractions within 2 km421
Park area within 2 km13 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 43 points.43
KillarneyTirana
Score1053
Notable places within 2 km783
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 27 points.27
KillarneyTirana
Score5784
Price level global80.242.6
Daily budget€187€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
KillarneyTirana
Score4867
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
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
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneyTirana
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 0 m
€85-125
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PoznanPOZ
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 10 m
€88-118
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 50 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 20 m
€95-224
TIA · 13 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

MeasureKillarneyTirana
Official languageEnglish, IrishAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m110 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneyTirana
City population14,412389,323
People per km²9,314
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1946
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.