VacationSelector

Florence or Galway?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

FlorenceGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
FlorenceGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceGalway
Score5937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1520
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 62 points.62
FlorenceGalway
Score8220
Museums within 10 km1325
Museums within 2 km of centre935
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 30 points.30
FlorenceGalway
Score5626
Drinking venues within 4 km818185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7383
Nightclubs within 4 km348
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 17 points.17
FlorenceGalway
Score3855
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km86 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceGalway
Score5225
Tourist attractions within 2 km305
Park area within 2 km86 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 53 points.53
FlorenceGalway
Score7522
Notable places within 2 km29214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceGalway
Score6857
Price level global64.980.2
Daily budget€155€187
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceGalway
Score6854
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm63 mm to 113 mm
Dry months20
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
1 h 50 m
€84-105
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
3 h 50 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFlorenceGalway
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
Elevation50 m25 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceGalway
City population360,93083,456
People per km²3,5281,563
Museums within 10 km1404
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6225
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.