VacationSelector

Cadiz or Galway?

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

Your match

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on 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.

CadizGalway
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 19 points.19
CadizGalway
Score7051
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2913
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Cadiz leads by 7 points.7
CadizGalway
Score4437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Cadiz leads by 16 points.16
CadizGalway
Score3620
Museums within 10 km235
Museums within 2 km of centre165
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cadiz leads by 4 points.4
CadizGalway
Score3026
Drinking venues within 4 km241185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7383
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 29 points.29
CadizGalway
Score2655
Protected land share 50 km %4—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4585
Park area within 2 km24 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 29 points.29
CadizGalway
Score5425
Tourist attractions within 2 km805
Park area within 2 km24 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
CadizGalway
Score3122
Notable places within 2 km2314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 14 points.14
CadizGalway
Score7157
Price level global60.880.2
Daily budget€122€187
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 29 points.29
CadizGalway
Score8354
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months50
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ArrecifeACE
2 h 5 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 15 m
€85-133
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MalagaAGP
50 m
€69-82
TNG · 95 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€91-110
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 10 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

MeasureCadizGalway
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m25 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizGalway
City population109,95083,456
People per km²9,0871,563
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2825
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. 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.