VacationSelector

Beijing or Galway?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BeijingGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
BeijingGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance145 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 43 points.43
BeijingGalway
Score6320
Museums within 10 km955
Museums within 2 km of centre155
Share of museums within 2 km %16100
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 20 points.20
BeijingGalway
Score3555
Protected land share 50 km %3—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km143 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 52 points.52
BeijingGalway
Score7725
Tourist attractions within 2 km415
Park area within 2 km143 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 28 points.28
BeijingGalway
Score5022
Notable places within 2 km6914
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 22 points.22
BeijingGalway
Score7957
Price level global4980.2
Daily budget—€187
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 12 points.12
BeijingGalway
Score6654
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
EdinburghEDI
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingGalway
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Irish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m25 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingGalway
City population21,893,09583,456
People per km²1,3341,563
Museums within 10 km834
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2925
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.