VacationSelector

Avignon or Galway?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Avignon
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AvignonGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
AvignonGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance55 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 7 points.7
AvignonGalway
Score4437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 35 points.35
AvignonGalway
Score5520
Museums within 10 km175
Museums within 2 km of centre165
Share of museums within 2 km %94100
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Galway leads by 10 points.10
AvignonGalway
Score1626
Drinking venues within 4 km115185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8483
Nightclubs within 4 km48
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 11 points.11
AvignonGalway
Score4455
Protected land share 50 km %36—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km23 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 17 points.17
AvignonGalway
Score4225
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km23 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Avignon leads by 18 points.18
AvignonGalway
Score4022
Notable places within 2 km4014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonGalway
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonGalway
Score7054
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months20
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 45 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

MeasureAvignonGalway
Official languageFrenchEnglish, 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
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonGalway
City population92,18883,456
People per km²1,4201,563
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3625
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.