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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Galway?

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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose Galway for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Galway’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bangkok 12, Galway 28: Galway leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Galway 45: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Galway 33: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Galway 50: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Galway 78: Galway leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Galway 56: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Galway 42: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Galway 58: Galway leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Galway 38: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Galway 28: Bangkok leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Galway 57: Galway leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Galway 28: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Galway.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Galway
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Galway in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Galway's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Shannon Airport.

Galway 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokGalway
Official languageThaiEnglish, Irish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokGalway
City population5,676,64883,456
People per km²3,6191,563
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.