Photos: Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Zurich by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Killarney or Zurich?
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
- prices
- nature and the outdoors
What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’s own page.
Choose Zurich for
- getting around
- shopping
- live music and the arts
What lies behind each score is written up on Zurich’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Killarney and Zurich.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.
Wins on getting around and shopping 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
Zurich in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Killarney | Zurich |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | English, Irish | French, German, Italian, Romansh |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Swiss Franc (CHF) |
| Sockets | G230 V, 50 Hz | CJ230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC, UTC+1 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 50 m | 408 m |
| Main airport | Kerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations | Zürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre226 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 10 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Killarney | Zurich |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 14,412 | 440,935 |
| People per km² | - | 5,016 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 63 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 1 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | - |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Killarney or Zurich somewhere new.