VacationSelector

Antwerp or Galway?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

AntwerpGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
AntwerpGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 38 points.38
AntwerpGalway
Score7537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4220
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 49 points.49
AntwerpGalway
Score6920
Museums within 10 km415
Museums within 2 km of centre275
Share of museums within 2 km %66100
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 33 points.33
AntwerpGalway
Score5926
Drinking venues within 4 km866185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7683
Nightclubs within 4 km738
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 21 points.21
AntwerpGalway
Score3455
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8085
Park area within 2 km53 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 21 points.21
AntwerpGalway
Score4625
Tourist attractions within 2 km145
Park area within 2 km53 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 32 points.32
AntwerpGalway
Score5422
Notable places within 2 km8814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpGalway
Score6057
Price level global76.280.2
Daily budget€180€187
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpGalway
Score5854
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm63 mm to 113 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 0 m
€51-84
CRL · 85 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureAntwerpGalway
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpGalway
City population529,24783,456
People per km²2,5421,563
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8025
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.