VacationSelector

Como or Galway?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Galway
✓ Best match
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.

ComoGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
ComoGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km813
Coast distance156 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 12 points.12
ComoGalway
Score2537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km720
Museums & heritage. Como leads by 26 points.26
ComoGalway
Score4620
Museums within 10 km95
Museums within 2 km of centre65
Share of museums within 2 km %67100
Unesco sites within 50 km80
Nightlife. Galway leads by 2 points.2
ComoGalway
Score2426
Drinking venues within 4 km213185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6783
Nightclubs within 4 km18
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 15 points.15
ComoGalway
Score4055
Protected land share 50 km %23—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km15 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 10 points.10
ComoGalway
Score1525
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km15 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Como leads by 8 points.8
ComoGalway
Score3022
Notable places within 2 km2214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 11 points.11
ComoGalway
Score6857
Price level global64.980.2
Daily budget€155€187
Year-round weather. Como leads by 4 points.4
ComoGalway
Score5854
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months00
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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGY · 51 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 34 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 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

MeasureComoGalway
Official languageItalianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation201 m25 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoGalway
City population83,18483,456
People per km²2,2421,563
Museums within 10 km94
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km80
Distinct cuisines in the centre2225
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.