VacationSelector

Antalya or Galway?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

AntalyaGalway
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 21 points.21
AntalyaGalway
Score7251
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km1113
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Antalya leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaGalway
Score4537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1120
Museums & heritage. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaGalway
Score2520
Museums within 10 km115
Museums within 2 km of centre85
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 33 points.33
AntalyaGalway
Score5926
Drinking venues within 4 km917185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5683
Nightclubs within 4 km558
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 14 points.14
AntalyaGalway
Score4155
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6985
Park area within 2 km69 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 15 points.15
AntalyaGalway
Score4025
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km69 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaGalway
Score2722
Notable places within 2 km1914
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 32 points.32
AntalyaGalway
Score8957
Price level global35.280.2
Daily budget€100€187
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaGalway
Score7154
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months40
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
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 55 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 40 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 15 m
€178-213
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 35 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
NottinghamEMA
4 h 15 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
NOC · 73 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

MeasureAntalyaGalway
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m25 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaGalway
City population2,426,35683,456
People per km²1,7121,563
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2225
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.