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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Galway for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • prices

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. Deer Valley 10, Galway 28: Galway leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Galway 45: Galway leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Galway 33: Galway leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Galway 50: Galway leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Galway 78: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Galway 56: Galway leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Galway 42: Deer Valley leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Galway 58: Galway leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Galway 38: Galway leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Galway 28: Galway leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Galway 57: Galway leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Galway 28: Deer Valley leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Galway.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Galway
Best match
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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.

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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyGalway
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,474 m25 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyGalway
City population-83,456
People per km²-1,563
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.