VacationSelector

Bangkok or Galway?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BangkokGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 11 points.11
BangkokGalway
Score4051
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 46 points.46
BangkokGalway
Score8337
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokGalway
Score4620
Museums within 10 km1035
Museums within 2 km of centre305
Share of museums within 2 km %29100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 57 points.57
BangkokGalway
Score8326
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4183
Nightclubs within 4 km728
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 4 points.4
BangkokGalway
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %——
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8385
Park area within 2 km42 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 32 points.32
BangkokGalway
Score5725
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km42 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokGalway
Score4822
Notable places within 2 km6214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokGalway
Score9357
Price level global29.780.2
Daily budget—€187
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokGalway
Score5654
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 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

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 centre142 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre9125
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.